The American Rhodes Scholarships: A Review Of The First Forty Years
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Few institutions have shaped the course of American intellectual and public life as quietly yet profoundly as the Rhodes Scholarship, and Frank Aydelotte's authoritative chronicle stands as the definitive record of its first four decades on American soil. Written by the man who served as American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, this meticulously researched volume details the origins, administration, and remarkable human legacy of a programme that sent generations of the nation's brightest minds to Oxford University, tracing how a visionary bequest by Cecil Rhodes was transformed into one of the most prestigious academic honours in the world. Aydelotte writes with the insider's precision and the historian's sweep, presenting a narrative that is at once institutional biography and cultural portrait of twentieth-century American academic ambition. The book uncovers the far-reaching influence of Rhodes Scholars across government, law, medicine, science, and the arts, illustrating how a single philanthropic vision rippled outward to reshape an entire nation's elite. For anyone captivated by the intersection of education, power, and public service, this volume raises an irresistible question: how many of the great decisions of the modern age were quietly shaped by a scholar who once studied at Oxford on Cecil Rhodes's dime?
Author: Frank Aydelotte
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, Princeton University Press
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few institutions have shaped the course of American intellectual and public life as quietly yet profoundly as the Rhodes Scholarship, and Frank Aydelotte's authoritative chronicle stands as the definitive record of its first four decades on American soil. Written by the man who served as American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, this meticulously researched volume details the origins, administration, and remarkable human legacy of a programme that sent generations of the nation's brightest minds to Oxford University, tracing how a visionary bequest by Cecil Rhodes was transformed into one of the most prestigious academic honours in the world. Aydelotte writes with the insider's precision and the historian's sweep, presenting a narrative that is at once institutional biography and cultural portrait of twentieth-century American academic ambition. The book uncovers the far-reaching influence of Rhodes Scholars across government, law, medicine, science, and the arts, illustrating how a single philanthropic vision rippled outward to reshape an entire nation's elite. For anyone captivated by the intersection of education, power, and public service, this volume raises an irresistible question: how many of the great decisions of the modern age were quietly shaped by a scholar who once studied at Oxford on Cecil Rhodes's dime?