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Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 18901915 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Daniel A. Clark
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Paperback. Series Editor(s): Boyer, Paul S. Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced a barrage of new challenges, among them a stultifying bureaucracy and growing competition in the workplace from an influx of immigrants and women. At this point a college education appealed to young men as an attractive avenue to success in a dawning corporate age. Accessible at first almost ... Read more
How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced a barrage of new challenges, among them a stultifying bureaucracy and growing competition in the workplace from an influx of immigrants and women. At this point a college education appealed to young men as an attractive avenue to success in a dawning corporate age. Accessible at first almost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in American Thought and Culture
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299235345
SKU
V9780299235345
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Reviews for Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 18901915 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
"Articulate and engaging. . . .the findings here are significant and timely, suggesting how college education acquired its democratic value and even utility, less from curricular changes than from larger norms and narratives attached to it by educators, editors, and advertisers."
Thomas Augst, "Journal of American History."
Thomas Augst, "Journal of American History."