Caroline Winterer
The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. First printing. 0801878896  x/244 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new.
Winterer argues that we cannot understand the rise of the American university or modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.