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Chase Nebeker Peterson - The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery - 9781607811824 - V9781607811824
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The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery

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Description for The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery Hardcover. The story of a Utah-born, Harvard-educated man offers life stories that focus on family, faith, career, and conviction Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
When Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1983 and Cold Fusion came under fire in 1989–90, Chase Peterson, as The University of Utah president, was inevitably pulled into these events that occurred on campus. While these episodes may be the best known in Peterson’s personal history, they are certainly not the only stories that make his autobiography worth reading. The Guardian Poplar tells of a man who grew up in small-town Utah and carried his pioneer and Mormon heritage to a New England prep school and later to Harvard. He then returned to Utah as a doctor, but ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811824
SKU
V9781607811824
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Ref
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About Chase Nebeker Peterson
After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Chase Nebeker Peterson began a career practicing medicine, but his path took him into university administration and led to his position as president of The University of Utah from 1983 to 1991.

Reviews for The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery
“Here is the odyssey of Chase Peterson, a man of remarkable gifts. His charming stories of the privileged places his talents have taken him reveal a man of unusual candor and humility. As he tells us, wherever he went as student, physician, college administrator, or teacher, he never left home.”—Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University ... Read more

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