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Paperback The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment Book

ISBN: 0805077774

ISBN13: 9780805077773

The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment

"This deftly woven portrait of Brewster and his close friends . . . is among the most revealing books ever written about the liberal establishment . . . Kabaservice is [a] thorough researcher and [a] comprehensive storyteller." -- The Atlantic Monthly Yale's Kingman Brewster was the only university president to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek and the last campus leader to become a truly national figure. He was also the center of the liberal...

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Rated 5 stars
When There Was an "Eastern Establishment"

This is a very interesting, but quite long, book which focuses upon Kingman Brewster and other members of the so-called "liberal establishment" that shaped national policy during the 1945 through 1970's period. In addition to Brewster, long-time Yale president, the author discusses the Bundy brothers, Cyrus Vance, Elliot Richardson, Bishop Paul Moore, John Lindsay, William Sloan Coffin, and even William F. Buckley. While...

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Important Book About an Important American

Although he is almost forgotten today, Kingman Brewster who was the president of Yale from 1963-1977 was in fact an important figure in recent American history. One reason for this was the fact that he ran Yale in such a way that the university almost completely escaped the tumult that wracked other campuses during the Vietnam War. Another reason is that he revamped the admissons policy at yale so that poorly achieving students...

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This is an amazing book

Many of us who came of age in the 1980s and '90s forget that America used to be a much more liberal place, and that there was a time in recent history when Republicans aligned themselves with issues like civil rights, meritocracy, affirmative action, and the problems of the inner city. We forget -- or never realized -- that in the '60s and '70s there existed a significant faction within the Republican party known as "the liberal...

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