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The extraordinary accomplishments of a great educator and even greater self-promoter

To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who could do everything; to those who didn't, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals." Ezra Pound branded him "one of the more loathsome figures" of the age. Celebrated and reviled around the world, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University for forty-four years, was a dominant personality for half a century. In this engrossing biography, Michael Rosenthal explores the many ways in which this extraordinary character seized and wielded power.

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 while simultaneously president of Columbia University, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Butler imposed himself on America as did few others. Rosenthal's superbly researched, elegantly written narrative brings vividly to life the mania, narcissism, and genius that enabled "Dr. Butler" to transform Columbia into New York's major research university and at the same time to become an internationally recognized institution himself. Rich in social, cultural, and political insight, Nicholas Miraculous illuminates Butler's prodigious career and the complex nature of the age that nourished him.

The Butler Did It
Nicholas Miraculous: the Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Michael Rosenthal's biography of Nicholas Murray Butler was fascinating reading for me because of Butler's position as my father's boss and major influence on the social, political and academic world in which he lived during the 1930's and early 1940's (my formative years).It was a world of clubby collegiality for those on the inside, formal social affairs, conservative politics, anti-Semitism, and class and cultural snobbery.Attitudes towards Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Fascism and Hitler's Nazis ranged from admiration to toleration - at least up to the time of the invasion of Poland in 1939. The issue of Negroes on the faculty or in the student body was so far from Butler's concern or concept of the way things should be that it is not even mentioned in his biography.Faculty members were free to exercise academic freedom so long as they did not publicly challenge any of the basic principles of the world of Butler and his colleagues.Those who did, were dismissed or passed over for promotion.
My father often complained about the internal politics he had to deal with at Columbia and I had assumed that this was a problem endemic to all academic institutions, but after reading this book I get the impression that it was worse at Columbia than other places because of the personality and policies of Butler himself who was not a very good administrator.

Miraculous Biography of Shaper of Columbia University
Professor Rosenthal has done a superb job of evoking the persona of the man who built Columbia, using his 44-year tenure as university president.The author has even succeeded in evoking the reader's sympathies for Butler, a powerful leader who, viewed in today's lights, was an autocratic megalomaniac who missed many opportunities to build an even greater educational institution on Morningside Heights.

This biography will be of great interest to anyone who spent time at Columbia (or its sister institutions) during the 20th century -- the years during which Butler's influence was at its zenith.It provides, perhaps for the first time,a background for some of the University's admirable traditions,balanced, wisely,by a few rather embarassing episodes in its history.

Nicholas Miraculous
Well written, but of interest mostly to those who went to Columbia while he was president. ... Read more

1. Addresses At The Several Receptions In Honor Of The Royal Italian War Commission In New York, By Nicholas Murray Butler (1917) by Nicholas Murray Butler
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3. Between two worlds: Interpretations of the age in which we live ; essays and addresses by Nicholas Murray Butler
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4. Butler's Commencement Addresses by Nicholas Murray Butler
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5. Installation of President Butler by Nicholas Murray Butler
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6. Scholarship and Service; The Policies and Ideals of a National University in a Modern Democracy by Nicholas Murray Butler
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7. The Basis of Durable Peace: Written at the Invitation of the New York Times by Nicholas Murray Butler
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8. Education in the United States: A Series of Monographs Prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900 by Nicholas Murray Butler
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9. Modernizando La Doctrina Monroe (1916) (Spanish Edition) by Carlos Hitchcock Sherrill
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10. Addresses at the several receptions in honor of the Royal Italian war commission in New York by Nicholas Murray Butler
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11. Educational Review, Volume 55 by Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew
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12. The Meaning of Education, and Other Essays and Addresses (1898 ) by Nicholas Murray Butler
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13. Present College Questions: Six Papers Read Before the National Educational Association, at the Sessions Held in Boston, July 6 and 7, L903 by Charles William Eliot, William Rainey Harper, Nicholas Murray Butler
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14. The Attack on Liberalism: An address delivered at the Parrish Art Museum Southampton, Long Island September 2, 1934 by Nicholas Murray BUTLER
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15. Educational Review, Volume 52 by Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, Charles Alexander Nelson
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16. Religion And The American Dream by Raymond C. Knox
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17. Present College Questions: Six Papers Read Before the National Educational Association, at the Sessions Held in Boston, July 6 and 7, 1903 by Charles William Eliot, William Rainey Harper, Nicholas Murray Butler
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18. ... Monographs On Education in the United States, Volume 2 by Nicholas Murray Butler
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19. A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World by Nicholas Murray Butler
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20. Is America Worth Saving?: Addresses On National Problems and Party Policies by Nicholas Murray Butler
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