The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America’s leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.
Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College is the posthumous memoir of Harold Taylor (1914–1993) told through thoughtful and entertaining accounts of his many interactions with leading cultural and political figures of his time. Taylor distinguished himself as a spokesperson for progressive education and educational experimentation during the 1950s and would emerge in the 1960s as one of the country’s leading public intellectuals and campus speakers, addressing issues related to student activism, peace education, and international studies. Written with insight and wit and carefully edited and reconstructed, Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College will inspire college students, professors, and administrators to reconsider the most fundamental purposes of higher education and social and educational change.
Table of Content
Foreword: Harold Taylor in Retrospect
by Leon Botstein
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The Day Duke Died
2. A Student’s Journey
3. Coming Down from Cambridge
4. The Wisconsin Years: A Serious Concern for the Relation of Thought to Action
5. Sarah Lawrence Remembrances: A Community in the Making
6. Assault on a Small College
7. On Being Written About: Mary Mc Carthy and Randall Jarrell
8. Dewey, Meiklejohn, and the 1950s
9. Thoughts on Leaving Sarah Lawrence and Life Thereafter
10. Adlai Stevenson and the 1960 Presidential Campaign: Putting the Public Interest above His Own
11. The Student Revolt Revisited: Students in a Stormy Time
12. Unbegun Chapters: Hubert Humphrey, Plagiarism, and Albert Barnes
Epilogue: Luck, Fate, Commitment, and Change
Postscript: The Play of Ideas
Appendix: Sample Schedule for Harold Taylor, May and June 1965
Notes
Index
About the author
Craig Kridel is E. S. Gambrell Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina. His many books include Stories of the Eight-Year Study: Reexamining Secondary Education in America (with Robert V. Bullough Jr.), also published by SUNY Press.
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