The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and The Origins of the Boy Scout Movement

The character factory: Baden-Powell and the origins of the Boy Scout movement

Rosenthal, Michael

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Virginia Woolf

A study of the Bloomsbury modernist's fiction which contends that form, not feminist or androgynous content, was her main concern

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Columbia Univ. Pr.

A study of the Bloomsbury modernist's fiction which contends that form, not feminist or androgynous content, was her main concern

Humor & Entertainment

Television

To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals." Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures" of the age. Whether celebrated or despised, Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947) was undeniably an irresistible force who helped shape American history. With wit and irony, Michael Rosenthal traces Butler's rise to prominence as president of Columbia University, which he presided over for forty-four years and developed into one of the world's most distinguished institutions of research and teaching. Butler also won the Nobel Peace Prize and headed both the Carnegie Endowment and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among innumerable other organizations. In 1920, he sought the Republican nomination for president, managing to garner more votes on the first ballot than the eventual winner, Warren Harding. Rosenthal's richly detailed, elegantly crafted narrative captures the mania and genius that propelled Butler to these extraordinary achievements and more. Thick with social, cultural, and political history, Nicholas Miraculous recreates Butler's prodigious career and the dynamic age that nourished him.

Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Columbia University Press

In this sumptuously illustrated book, Michael Rosenthal provides a lively account of Thomas Gainsborough's varied life and diverse artworks. Rosenthal examines the artist's portraits, landscapes, and fancy pictures, works of extraordinary beauty and complexity. The book also considers for the first time Gainsborough's entire body of works and how his career reflected problems and situations common among painters in eighteenth-century England.

The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A Little Business for the Eye" (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Paul Mellon Centre BA

The extraordinary accomplishments of a great educator and even greater self-promoter To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who could do everything; to those who didn't, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals." Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures" of the age. Celebrated and reviled around the world, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University for forty-four years, was a dominant personality for half a century. In this engrossing biography, Michael Rosenthal explores the many ways in which this extraordinary character seized and wielded power. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 while simultaneously president of Columbia University, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Butler imposed himself on America as did few others. Rosenthal's superbly researched, elegantly written narrative brings vividly to life the mania, narcissism, and genius that enabled "Dr. Butler" to transform Columbia into New York's major research university and at the same time to become an internationally recognized institution himself. Rich in social, cultural, and political insight, Nicholas Miraculous illuminates Butler's prodigious career and the complex nature of the age that nourished him.

Professionals & Academics

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Describes the origins of scouting in Edwardian England, and explains the reasons why Baden-Powell established the Boy Scouts

THE CHARACTER FACTORY

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pantheon

Routledge& Kegan Paul

British landscape painting

Painting

Phaidon

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