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An education for our time

Author: Josiah Bunting
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Dying of cancer at the age of 71, billionaire industrialist John Adams sets in motion the plans for endowing a brand new college with his entire fortune. Set in Wyoming, this ideal institution will train the future leaders of America in a way radically different from any other college. By focusing on building character, it will use principles based on moral and physical courage which guided America's Founding  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Correspondence Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bunting, Josiah, 1939-
Education for our time.
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c1998
(OCoLC)607596045
Online version:
Bunting, Josiah, 1939-
Education for our time.
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c1998
(OCoLC)608516380
Named Person: John Adams; Robert Parkman
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Josiah Bunting
ISBN: 0895263696 9780895263698 0895262223 9780895262226
OCLC Number: 39102014
Description: xxv, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Setting the stage --
What is our mission? --
Who should they be? --
How should they live? --
What should they learn? --
Who should lead them? --
Postmortem.
Other Titles: An education for our time /
Responsibility: Josiah Bunting, III.
Local System Bib Number:
103495

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Bunting--a Rhodes scholar, bestselling novelist, and president of three distinguished liberal arts colleges--draws a portrait of the ideal college.  Read more...
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