The Headmaster
Pages: 160
|Published: 1 Jan 1966
Description
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who. . . created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities. " More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.
