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Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education Paperback – September 15, 1997

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A portrait of University School in Cleveland, Ohio, an all-boys' day school, follows a year in the lives of the male students, teachers, and headmaster, and explores the benefits of single-sex education
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    400 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Holt Paperbacks
  4. Publication date
    September 15, 1997
  5. Dimensions
    6.18 x 1.05 x 9.22 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0805055959
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0805055955
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"In a world of educational failure and decline, this is a book to make you stand up and cheer."-Plain Dealer

"Michael Ruhlman has chosen a subject of uncommon interest and done it complete justice."-The New York Times Book Review

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Paperbacks (September 15, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805055959
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805055955
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.18 x 1.05 x 9.22 inches
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Michael Ruhlman

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Michael Ruhlman is the author or co-author of more than 25 books—non-fiction, fiction, and memoir—the majority of which are on food and cooking, including the bestselling "The Soul of a Chef," "The French Laundry Cookbook" with Thomas Keller, "Charcuterie" with Brian Polcyn, "Ruhlman's Twenty," which won both James Beard and IACP awards, and most recently, "Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America." He lives in New York City.

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mmdesj@gte.net Mark Desjardins
5.0 out of 5 stars A realistic slice of life portrait of prep school life.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 1999
Ruhlman brings the complexities of prep school to life in a manner in which few writers have accomplished. I both attended and have worked within some of the country's most notable prep schools. After my first year as an Upper School Head, I sat down one day and read the book cover to cover. Ruhlman's protrait of the teachers and students is fascinating. He takes the time to develop characters, especailly the indefteabable head of school, Richard Hawley. Ruhlman goes beyond just reporting what he sees. He engages himself and others in a dialgue that constantly questions the ethos of the school. In one interesting scence, he describes how a senior speech got out of control. Ruhlman gives us the fallout from this display of "entitlement disorder" from all the angles; students, teachers and administrators. Ruhlman also takes the time to venture into the debate over single-sex education. He handles this challenge with grace. However, for me this book was more like an ethnography of a school. Ruhlman provides the reader with a fascinating behind the scences account of a most interesting school. The appeal of this book should be wider than prep school audieance. However, if you are interested in independent school education this is a must read. Bravo to Ruhlman for doing justice to such a complex subject.
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Insatiable Reader
3.0 out of 5 stars Too Close to the Subject?
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2005
In 1993-94, Ruhlman returned to his alma mater, University School in Cleveland, to explore the workings of an all-boys school and study its headmaster, the famously idiosyncratic Rick Hawley. In this context, I'd be hard-pressed to outline all my issues with Ruhlman's project, but his "fly on the wall" presentation of teachers and classes is consistently evocative--real, familiar, and true to the private school life I experience as a private school teacher. However, Ruhlman stumbles as he explains. When he tries to make something of his observations--to comment on what's distinctive about boys schools or what Rick Hawley represents or what anything adds-up to--he teeters on rationalization. If, as he says in the book, Ruhlman wanted his readers to "fulfill" the "dramas" he presented, he should have let them. Better yet, he might have left this task to someone who was not an alum of the school.
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Daniel E. Wickett
4.0 out of 5 stars Good first effort
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2000
Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education by Michael Ruhlman
This book was written by Mr. Ruhlman before he gained fame with his "The Making of a Chef" and "The Soul of a Chef" combo; it was his first effort at reporting and writing a full length book. The method Ruhlman uses here is similar to the two later efforts; he spends the same amount of time as his subjects at their craft. In this case, that means he is present at University School, a boys only school in the Cleveland , OH area, from just prior to first class, day one, through graduation and a faculty party afterwards.
The difference in his approach in this effort is the lack of infiltration. Mr. Ruhlman is not posing as a student, or a faculty member; he has the Headmaster Richard Hawley's permission to wander as he wish, taking notes, asking questions, observing. This is completely different than the efforts Ruhlman takes to retain his anonymity from his subjects in "The Making of a Chef," and the first section of "The Soul of a Chef." One cannot help but wonder if a layer of two of self-consciousness wouldn't have been removed from some of the students and/or faculty members throughout if they were unaware of his intentions.
Another similarity is the writing itself; Ruhlman does a great job of taking real people and developing them as fully three dimensional characters throughout his books. We see development in students, faculty, and the headmaster as well as observations by the author himself which show his developing ideas regarding his topic. Through his eyes, Ruhlman makes these people become ones that you care about; you want to know what has happened to them since graduation day in the same sort of detail that he has given you with this school year.
In situations where there are large issues at the school, the problems are shown by every conceivable angle; student, faculty, parents, headmaster and occasionally his own thoughts. Philosophy and morality take up a great deal of time at the school. Some of the topics, as well as smaller issues amongst individuals, are followed throughout the book as they proceed and develop through the year.
The one problem I had was a slight lack of confidence Mr. Ruhlman had in his own writing sporadically throughout the book. He would follow up a well written paragraph with a blunt recap as if he felt he was perhaps too subtle in his descriptions. The full text of the book is reminiscent of this as well as we get 18 chapters of the school year, with wonderful descriptions of the differences between Single Sex and Co-Educational school systems. This is followed up by an explanational 19th chapter that wraps up his opinions on the topic.
This problem was a minor one however when compared to the lyrical writing, "character" development and subtle observations spread throughout the book.
3.5 Stars.
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