This first-ever biography of John William Ward, the fourteenth president of Amherst College, explores the roots of his idealism and covers his presidency, his l

Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from r

This first-ever biography of John William Ward, the fourteenth president of Amherst College, explores the roots of his idealism and covers his presidency, his l

During John William Ward’s time as president of Amherst College, he dealt with issues of gender and sexuality through the integration of women into a traditio

The first major collection of master photographer John Ward's gorgeously detailed black-and-white images of the American West