{"product_id":"seasoned-timber-9780874517538","title":"Seasoned Timber","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Nobody values anything for its endurance nowadays \" T. C. Hulme  headmaster of the Clifford  Vermont Academy muses. Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt  T. C. is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield Fisher shows  neither love nor Academy life runs smooth.  A younger suitor steps in  and a rich  out-of-state trustee dies and leaves the Academy a million-dollar \"gift\" in his will. The codicils are troubling  however: Jews must be excluded  girls ousted  and local students squeezed out by a tuition hike. The affront to a Yankee sense of fair play is clear  but the school desperately needs funds. Thus T. C. and the town confront a struggle between the \"old\" virtues of tolerance  integrity  and civic responsibility and \"modern\" attitudes of expediency  exclusionism  and outside control.  Originally published in 1939  Fishers last novel is remarkably prescient in its defense of human rights and the ramifications of their denial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932335964213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0874517532","price":69.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780874517538.jpg?v=1794224486","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/seasoned-timber-9780874517538","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}