The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield - Softcover

McPhee, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374514968 ISBN 13: 9780374514969

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992

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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school’s headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man “at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities.” More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school’s headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man “at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities.” More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.

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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966), Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1968), A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969), The Crofter and the Laird (1969), Levels of the Game (1970), Encounters with the Archdruid (1972), The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973), The Curve of Binding Energy (1974), Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975), and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975). Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began atTime magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book,A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, includingOranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989),The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011).Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374514968
• ISBN 13: 9780374514969
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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