| David French Boyd: Founder of Louisiana State University Contributor(s): Reed, Germaine M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807124699 ISBN-13: 9780807124697 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 77000446 |
| Series: Southern Biography (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the cumulative effects of war, Reconstruction, political hostility, and parochial greed. Boyd fought hard to promote his vision of higher education among a largely antagonistic or apathetic citizenry. He died, bitter and disillusioned, in 1899, without realizing his dream. But his life was not wasted. Clearly those who governed the university in more prosperous days owned much of their success to the devotion and self-sacrifice of this heroic figure. |