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Article: Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir.(Brief Article)
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- The Progressive
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- July 1, 1994
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By Milton Mayer, edited by John H. Hicks University of California Press. 550 pp. $35.00.
If readers of The Progressive think you've heard the last of Milton Mayer, forget it. You have a treat in store in this, the last book Mayer wrote before his death in 1986. An account of the association of two friends for about forty years, this book is also a history of the social and political movements of the middle decades of the Twentieth Century.
Mayer, The Progressive's essayist and roving editor for many years, shares his personal experiences as he reflects on the life and times of Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977). It is often hard to know when Hutchins ...