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- Author: Richard D Altick
- Publisher: Xlibris
- Year: 2002
- Pages: 291
- ISBN-10: 1401023126
- ISBN-13: 9781401023126
- Format: 15.1 x 23.1 x 2.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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In slightly less than three hundred pages, Altick, a self-described child of the Depression, takes us from his birth in 1915 through his early interest in reading turn-of-the-century bestsellers, rarely the Bible or the usual classics, to his secondary school, college, and postgraduate education, pausing frequently to provide fascinating portraits of now-vanished scholars and educational practice. It is all both so similar and so different. Always modest and always happy exploring libraries, Altick, a man known for his apparently encyclopedic knowledge of subjects he's studied--research techniques, the nineteenth-century reader, Victorian popular entertainment, and so on--described himself as having a primarily journalistic bent. Modestly plugging away at research apparently far too daunting for the rest of us, he produced valuable work that has stood the test of time.
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- Author: Richard D Altick
- Publisher: Xlibris
- Year: 2002
- Pages: 291
- ISBN-10: 1401023126
- ISBN-13: 9781401023126
- Format: 15.1 x 23.1 x 2.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
In slightly less than three hundred pages, Altick, a self-described child of the Depression, takes us from his birth in 1915 through his early interest in reading turn-of-the-century bestsellers, rarely the Bible or the usual classics, to his secondary school, college, and postgraduate education, pausing frequently to provide fascinating portraits of now-vanished scholars and educational practice. It is all both so similar and so different. Always modest and always happy exploring libraries, Altick, a man known for his apparently encyclopedic knowledge of subjects he's studied--research techniques, the nineteenth-century reader, Victorian popular entertainment, and so on--described himself as having a primarily journalistic bent. Modestly plugging away at research apparently far too daunting for the rest of us, he produced valuable work that has stood the test of time.
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