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Author Peterson, Chase N

Title The guardian poplar : a memoir of deep roots, journey, and rediscovery / Chase Nebeker Peterson ; foreword by Cornel West
Published Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Foreword; An Appreciation; Preface: An Interesting Case; Acknowledgments; Part 1: The Sun Rises in the Pioneer West; 1. "The Lord Was Right": Peterson and Geddes Immigrants; 2. "There Is Always a Way": Nebeker and Hulme Immigrants; 3. Zero to Fifteen: Growing Up in Logan; Part 2: The East, a Second Dawn; 4. Concord: Middlesex School, a New Culture; 5. Harvard College: A Unity of Faith and Reason, Intellect and Culture; 6. Harvard Medical School: Professional Rigor; 7. Yale Residency to Utah Practice:Thirty-six Hours on, Twelve off, to Live Happily Ever After
Part 3: From Utah, Back to Boston8. Harvard College Admissions: Rich in the Particulars; 9. Harvard University Vice Presidency: Alumni and Development, and Faith Revisited; Photo Gallery; Part 4: Back to the West, a Second Sunset; 10. Utah Medical Sciences: Max, Brigham, and a Favoring Culture; 11. University of Utah: "Why Did They Make You President?"; 12. "They Will Only Laugh at You": Cold Fusion; 13. "What Am I Now?": Medicine, Teaching, Practice, and Sick Myself; 14. The Matter of Home; Epilogue; Notes; Index
Notes Includes index
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Subject Peterson, Chase N
SUBJECT Peterson, Chase N. fast
Subject University of Utah -- Presidents -- Biography
Harvard University -- Professional staff -- Biography
SUBJECT Harvard University fast
University of Utah fast
Subject Physicians -- United States -- Biography
College presidents -- Utah -- Biography
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Latter Day Saints -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
Cancer -- Patients
College presidents
Latter Day Saints
Physicians
Presidents
United States
Utah
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781607819981
1607819988