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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Okrent
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 520
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142001776
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“In an era when nearly every college president bore a triple-barreled name, none carried as potent a charge as Nicholas Murray Butler.”
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