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(1908-1994) Historian. Arthur Bestor was born in Chautauqua, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.

Full Name

Arthur Bestor

Locations

Chautauqua

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Bestor attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York.

1908

BIRTH

Arthur Eugene Bestor Jr. was born in Chautauqua, New York, on September 20, 1908.

1936

OTHER

Mr. Bestor taught at the Teachers College, Columbia University from 1936 to 1942.

1950

LITWORK

Backwoods Utopias
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
1199955167 / 978-1199955166
Nonfiction.

1953

LITWORK

Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press

Nonfiction, revised 1985.

1956

LITWORK

The Restoration Of Learning
New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Nonfiction.

1994

DEATH

Arthur Bestor died at his home in Seattle, Washington, on December 13, 1994.

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