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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and |
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基本信息·出版社：Mariner Books
·页码：711 页
·出版日期：2006年09月
·ISBN：061877355X
·International Standard Book Number：061877355X
·条形码：9780618773558
·EAN：9780618773558
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 A landmark work of social and cultural history, The Chosen vividly reveals the changing dynamics of power and privilege in America over the past century. Full of colorful characters (including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Bryant Conant, and Kingman Brewster), it shows how the ferocious battles over admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton shaped the American elite and bequeathed to us the peculiar system of college admissions that we have today. From the bitter anti-Semitism of the 1920s to the rise of the “meritocracy” at midcentury to the debate over affirmative action today, Jerome Karabel sheds surprising new light on the main events and social movements of the twentieth century. No one who reads this remarkable book will ever think about college admissions -- or America -- in the same way again.
作者简介 JEROME KARABEL is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow of the Longview Institute, a new progressive think tank. An award-winning scholar, Karabel has appeared on Nightline, Today, and All Things Considered. He has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
媒体推荐 "A thorough and definative look at elite college admissions . . . fascinating." --David Brooks The New York Times Book Review
"The Chosen is beautifully written and brilliantly researched, and will forever change the way Americans understand elite education." --Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point
"Masterly . . . Decades in the making, The Chosen brilliantly dissects the (discriminatory) origins of the broad discretion exercised by the Big Three in determining their entering classes." --Chronicle of Higher Education
"Epically scaled and scrupulously rendered." --Slate
"Unexpectedly fascinating . . . a monumental work of scholarship." San Jose Mercury News
"Unexpectedly fascinating . . . a monumental work of scholarship." San Jose Mercury News
"Encyclopedic and engaging." --Economist
"An intriguing study of how Harvard, Yale, and Princeton decided whom they would admit throughout the twentieth century." New York Review of Books
"Meticulously researcehd, astutely argued, and . . . surprisingly engaging." --American Prospect
"Shocking." Christian Science Monitor
"[Karabel] tells his story intelligently and stylishly . . . Karabel is illuminating and quietly excoriating on the subject of class diversity at the elite schools . . . Most refreshing and most important, throughout his book Karabel insists that readers heed what he calls 'the dark side of meritocracy.' " Atlantic Monthly
"Fascinating plot twists . . . a cast of characters that any fiction writer should envy . . . compelling." Dallas Morning News
"An illuminating analysis . . . a breathtaking book, built on an acute sense of history, rigorous research, and original insights into how higher education affects and reflects the larger society. The Chosen is a book to be savored." --Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
"Definitive . . . a new lens through which to view a century of American history." --Jewish Review
"A sweeping hundred-year retrospective." U.S. News & World Report
"Remarkable." The New Yorker
"A powerful study . . . required reading for those interested in the idea of meritocracy in America and the idea that truly merit-based access to higher education is the engine of social mobility." Library Journal
"Authoritative and brilliantly researched." Commentary
"A work of intellectual genealogy in the Nietzschean sense, showing that a practice we take for granted -- the way students apply and are chosen for the most elite universities -- is neither timeless nor disinterested...A chilling picture of the deliberate bigotry that infected America's places of higher learning." New York Sun
"This is a feast of a book, invaluable for anyone studying the culture of a nation that claims to be egalitarian." --Huntington News Network
"Karabel really does have a story to tell . . . It is (ever aspect of it, really) a touchy subject. The very title of the book is a kind of sucker punch . . . But Karabel turns it back against the WASP establishment itself -- in ways too subtle, and certainly too well researched, to be considered merely polemical." --Inside Higher Education
"An extraordinary work, exhaustively researched and persuasively argued." --Arts and Letters Magazine
"Magisterial . . . the most thorough and incisive study of twentieth-century undergraduate admissions." --Geoffrey Kabaservice, author of The Guardians
"Marvelous . . . An utterly absorbing account of politics and privilege on America's most revered campuses." --Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
"A staggering hidden history." --Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet
"A refreshingly candid account of the admissions madness at elite colleges, where merit often functioned simply as a handmaiden to power." --Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor at Harvard Law School
"Both entertaining and authoritative . . . It is rare to find a book that is so well researched, so readable, and of such broad interest." --Christopher Avery, professor at the Kennedy School of Government
"A fascinating study in American cultural history." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Days
"A tour de force of investigative sociology . . . Anyone who wishes to understand the shifting ground of the American establishment should read The Chosen, get shocked by the raw bigotries of the past, and accept Karabel's challenge to rethink the meritocratic ideal." --Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology, Columbia University, and author of The Sixties
"A magisterial and even-handed account of a vexed and important issue." --Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
"A magisterial history." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
>"A masterly piece of historical detective work and a powerful indictment of elite educational institutions whose self-serving rationales have long masked the protection of privilege." The Chicago Tribune
"A juicy storyyy inddddeed . . . The special value of The Chosen lies...in its stories, its prolific and always apt statistics, and its analysis of backroom university politics." --Washington Post Book World
