Iconoclast - Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning

"Thanks to Thomas Bonner's Iconoclast, we finally have the biography Flexner deserves and readers seek." -- Journal of Higher Education

About the author

Thomas N. Bonner is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of Wayne State University. He is the author of five books on the history of medicine and education, and two textbooks. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a Rockefeller Foundation Resident at Baellagio, Italy. The former president of three universities and colleges–the University of New Hampshire, Union College, and Wayne State University–he is the recipient of major, multi-year grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institutes of Health, and has been awarded three honorary degrees.

Summary

His story, based on new archival sources and told with verve and wit, is sure to become the definitive work on a man and his era.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Neville Bonner, Thomas Neville (C/o Carlisle & Company) Bonner, Bonner Thomas Neville
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2003
• EAN: 9780801871245
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7124-5
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, EDUCATION / General, Education, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, United States of America, USA, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, medical professional biographies; medical education