The Prefects: British Leadership and the Public School Tradition

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xv, 243pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Moderate shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Creasing and rubbing to front and rear of jacket. Creasing, rubbing, and mild sunning to jacket spine. Age-toning to flaps and interior of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Toning and rubbing to front and rear boards. Sunning to spine. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
From the forging of a modern bureaucracy one hundred years ago right up to our own generation, British government has been dominated by The Prefects, a gentleman elite trained to public leadership in the public schools. Today their legacy is all about us.
The book illuminates the character and impacet of The Prefects by describing their schooldays. It views the public schools as a political institution, nourishing the power of a gentleman class and indoctrinating it with distinctive manners and binding loyalties.(Publisher).