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
Author Louis Auchincloss (center) received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He stands between President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
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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Herzog (novel)
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Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow, composed in part of letters from the protagonist Moses E. Herzog. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the Prix International. In 2005, Time magaz
The Rector of Justin
…for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction, losing to Shirley Ann Grau's The Keeper of the House and Saul Bellow's Herzog, respectively. Its loss to Herzog marked American literary fiction's transition from realist society novels about the American upper class to poetic…
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