The 'True Professional Ideal' in America: A History

[T]he best history of American professions to date. This book will become a classic of intellectual and social history. -- Harold Perkin, Northwestern University
a veritable ^Rsumma^I on the professions. -- R Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley
Absolutely wonderful. It cannot fail to become a landmark in the literature not only of professionalization, but also of intellectual history more broadly considered. -- Philip Gleason, University of Notre Dame
[A] useful, densely researched, multilayered work in U.S. cultural and intellectual history. * American Historical Review *
...[A] brilliant book. * Times Literary Supplement *