Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0300067615, Hardcover)

Since the late nineteenth century, a number of prestigious American universities-including Yale, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Santa Cruz-have attempted to create small undergraduate residential colleges similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. This book tells the story of these efforts-some successful, others not-as American educators sought to foster the academic and intellectual values of the Oxbridge model as they perceived it.