Chosen The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

Name: Chosen The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
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ISBN: 9780618773558

ISBN-10: 061877355X

ISBN-13: 9780618773558

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jerome Karabel

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A landmark work of social and cultural history, The Chosen vividly reveals the changing dynamics of power and privilege in America over the past century. Full of colorful characters (including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Bryant Conant, and Kingman Brewster), it shows how the ferocious battles over admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton shaped the American elite and bequeathed to us the peculiar system of college admissions that we have today. From the bitter anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the rise of the "meritocracy" at midcentury to the debate over affirmative action today, Jerome Karabel sheds surprising new light on the main events and social movements of the…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 728
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English