| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. By Michael Rosenthal. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006. 528 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-374-29994-3.)
College presidents today are often dismissed as bland fundraisers who lack the vision and courage to speak out on issues of public importance. This unfavorable comparison with earlier giants, including Charles Eliot of Harvard, David Starr Jordan of Stanford, William Rainey Harper of Chicago, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California, reveals a great deal about the growing national importance of universities in the early twentieth century and the roles that those "captains of erudition" were able to play (John R. Thelin, A History of American Higher Education, 2004, p. 110).	1
Few leaders enjoyed their time on the national and international stage more than Nicholas Murray Butler, the larger-than-life president of Columbia University whose forty- three years in office (1902–1945) paralleled two equally remarkable careers—as a major player in the Republican party, whose presidential nomination he sought in 1920, and as the highly visible president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1925–1945), in recognition of which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.	. . .

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