03129nam 2200517 450 991081974890332120170919163012.00-85745-369-610.1515/9780857453693(CKB)2670000000546830(EBL)1331222(MiAaPQ)EBC1331222(DE-B1597)636992(DE-B1597)9780857453693(EXLCZ)99267000000054683020181002d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRhodes scholars, Oxford, and the creation of an American elite /Thomas J. Schaeper and Kathleen SchaeperNew York ;Oxford :Berghahn Books,2010.1 online resource (435 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-721-8 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 RHODES, SOUTH AFRICA, AND OXFORD -- Chapter 2 GETTING STARTED -- Chapter 3 THE SETTING -- Chapter 4 YANKS AND BRITS -- Chapter 5 THE SCHOLAR-ATHLETES -- Chapter 6 PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES -- Chapter 7 INTERWAR YEARS Society and Study -- Chapter 8 INTERWAR YEARS Fighting the World’s Fight -- Chapter 9 POSTWAR PROBLEMS AND ADJUSTMENTS -- Chapter 10 THE COLD WAR AND THE SILENT GENERATION -- Chapter 11 BILL CLINTON AND FRIENDS -- Chapter 12 NEW VOICES, NEW FACES I Blacks and Other Minorities -- Chapter 13 NEW VOICES, NEW FACES II Women, Gays, and Lesbians -- Chapter 14 CAREERS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- Chapter 15 THE OXFORD FACTOR -- Chapter 16 THE RHODES AHEAD -- APPENDIX: U.S. Rhodes Scholars, 1904-2006 -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public Rhodes scholarshipsHistoryScholarsUnited StatesBiographyEducationUnited StatesHistoryCross-cultural studiesEducationGreat BritainHistoryCross-cultural studiesRhodes scholarshipsHistory.ScholarsEducationHistoryEducationHistory378.42574Schaeper Thomas J.1048251Schaeper KathleenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819748903321Rhodes scholars, Oxford, and the creation of an American elite4040851UNINA