Frederick Jackson Turneer Historian Scholar Teacher by Ray Allen Billington 1973 Oxford University Press Biography books
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This is a very good hardcover with dust jacket. 1973 Oxford University Press. This copy is actually still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Tan hardcover boards under jacket are also very good with only a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is very good with only very light shelf wear. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 599 pages including index.
Frederick Jackson Turner, the distinguished American historian whose frontier thesis revolutionized out nation's way of viewing her past, was also a college professor burdened with teaching duties, faculty meetings, and financial pressures. The author, Ray Allen Billington, a leading historian of the American frontier, has written a definitive biography that showcases the man and the historian.
The 1973 biography focuses on Turner's development of the "frontier thesis" and his impact on American historical scholarship at universities like Wisconsin and Harvard. The book, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1974,. It details Turner's career, from his famous 1893 essay on the significance of the frontier to his role as a leading intellectual figure, and is considered a definitive work.
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