John B Boles: 2 books
Jefferson
Architect of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970
Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B....
University Builder
Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871--1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged,...