The American civic leader and college president Seth Low (1850-1916) was a distinguished crusader for urban reform.Seth Low was born into a wealthy Brooklyn, N.Y., family on Jan. 18, 1850. His grandfa...
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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.
To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray But...
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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray Butler, h...
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