PREVIEW: TALENT: #GENTRY: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, how the 19th century moved from venerating landed gentry to venerating intellectual power -- and the challenging and fraught se

Mar 10, 10:05 PM

PREVIEW: TALENT: #GENTRY: Excerpt from a conversation with author Adrian Wooldridge re his new book, THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT, how the 19th century moved from venerating landed gentry to venerating intellectual power -- and the challenging and fraught search for intellect in schooling and testing.  More of this later.

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, by Adrian Wooldridge 

https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World/dp/1510768610/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1658009977&refinements=p_27%3AAdrian+Wooldridge&s=books&sr=1-2

1909 Oxford