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Book Review
| Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. By J. David Hoeveler. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xvi, 381 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8476-8830-5.)
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| J. David Hoeveler begins with two principal objectives in this study of higher education in early America: to offer the "first synthetic examination" (p. x) of all nine colonial colleges and to describe the construction of an "American intellectual culture" (p. xi). The result is a masterly synthesis but one that remains somewhat unconvincing in its main contention that these colleges played a "particularly significant role" (p. xi) in creating the American mind. |
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