Princeton

by Robert Gambee

Book Overview

Princeton University by Robert Gambee, published by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.1987 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393024237
• ISBN13: 9780393024234
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful "you are there" pix/history book of town, campus, institutes

This is an atmospheric and informative coffee table tome covering the history of the town of Princeton from earliest (pre-Revolutionary) times, plus the university, student-related downtown districts and surrounding institutions, with many 1/2 and 2/3 page-sized color pix. Photos (taken by the same financial type/photographer Robert Gambee who did the superb "Wall Street Christmas") are both artistic and of high reproduction quality, on heavy matte white stock. The accompanying text is well focused and definitive, from data on early homes to campus buildings (classrooms/Halls, schools and colleges, libraries, dorms, eating clubs) and cultural phenomena (religion, music, testing and tutoring methods, sports events, drama, and the famous reunions). Having read this book, I felt as though I'd been born and raised in town and was an alum of the college!