Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield-Quality Guarantee

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Title: Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

Author: John McPhee

ISBN: 9780374514969

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1992

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 160

Condition: Used Copy

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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 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.