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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
The Big Test The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
Author: Nicholas Lemann
This brilliant book shows us for the first time the ideas, the people, and the politics behind the fifty-year-old system that deter mines the course of Americans' lives. It began as a utopian experiment--launched by James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, and Henry Chauncey, head of the brand-new Educational Testing Service (ETS)-...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374299842
ISBN-10: 0374299846
Publication Date: 10/1/1999
Pages: 406
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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