Louis Auchincloss
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Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of
Auchincloss receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Bush in 2005
The Rector of Justin
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The Rector of Justin is a 1964 psychological fiction novel by Louis Auchincloss about the headmaster of a socially exclusive American boarding school. Over the decades, various narrators provide contr
Louis Auchincloss
…society. Among his books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents (1960), Portrait in Brownstone (1962), and East Side Story (2004). The Rector of Justin (1964) is the tale of a renowned headmaster of a prep school like the one he attended, Groton School, trying to deal with changing times. In the early…
The public disgrace of Richard Whitney (pictured), the aristocratic president of the New York Stock Exchange, shocked upper-class society.
Endicott Peabody's friend Theodore Roosevelt supported Peabody's goal to toughen up the children of American elites, urging Peabody's students to avoid "the life of mere vapid ease." However, some students questioned whether Peabody had been successful.
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