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Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw

John, Richard R.

Thomas K. McCraw is justly admired as a consummate prose stylist, a talented editor, a perceptive historian of the United States, and an inspiring teacher whose mastery of the biographical form led to a string of elegantly written prize-winning publications that are widely read and often taught. The publication one month before McCraw’s death in November 2012 of his last book, The Founders and Finance, provides the occasion for this essay, which contends that McCraw also deserves to be remembered as a founder of two thriving academic subfields—policy history and the history of capitalism—despite the fact that he trained relatively few history PhD students, and rarely appeared in public during the final years of his life as the result of a debilitating illness that greatly limited his mobility.

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Title
Business History Review
Publisher
The President and Fellows of Harvard College
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680514001020

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Academic Units
Journalism
History
Published Here
August 1, 2018