DOUGLAS, William O.

America Challenged [ASSOCIATION Copy]

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 12mo. Pp. xi, 74. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt. In dust jacket, $2.50 price present, lightest wear to corners and spine ends. Inscribed by Douglas to the book's dedicatee, Robert Maynard Hutchins, "with admiration and affection" Fine / Near Fine. Item #12295

Delivered as "The Walter E. Edge Lectures, 1960."

Hutchins was a major figure in American higher‑education reform. He served as President of the University of Chicago and was an architect of the Great Books program.

The dedication reads, "To Robert Maynard Hutchins Who Has Helped Us Keep Alive the Spirit of Free Inquiry in Troubled Days". Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.

Price: $2,500.00