This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States from England in 1932, as well as when he went back again in 1941 as the United States secretary for American-British scientific research and development exchange efforts. Principally, it covers his twenty ...
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This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States from England in 1932, as well as when he went back again in 1941 as the United States secretary for American-British scientific research and development exchange efforts. Principally, it covers his twenty-five years as president of Purdue University, his impact on higher education generally, and his retirement in 1971. The book depicts Hovde the president and Hovde the man. It focuses on the growth of Purdue University from the post-World War II years through the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and Hovde's own comments on those periods.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. INSCRIBED! West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, 1980. 8vo hardcover. xvii+442pp. Illustrations. Inscribed by Frederick L. Hovde to Richard Lugar on front endpage. Very Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Stamped on front endpage. From the collection of Indiana Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar (1932-2019). Senator Lugar was highly regarded for his foreign policy leadership and work in pursuit of nuclear nonproliferation. (College Presidents, Purdue University, Biography) Inquire if you need further information.
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Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 442pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Handsome first edition of this memoir of the noted Purdue University president, educator and chemical engineer (1908-83).
