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Full Name: Arthur Bestor
Biography:
(1908-1994) Historian. Arthur Bestor was born in Chautauqua, New York, and died in Seattle, Washington.
Author's Timeline:
1908 Chautauqua County
Arthur Eugene Bestor Jr. was born in Chautauqua, New York, on September 20, 1908. 
1994 (Unknown) County
Arthur Bestor died at his home in Seattle, Washington, on December 13, 1994. 
1950 (Unknown) County
Backwoods Utopias
(Pub: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1199955167 / 978-1199955166)
Nonfiction. 
1953 (Unknown) County
Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools
(Pub: Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press ISBN: )
Nonfiction, revised 1985. 
1936 New York County
Mr. Bestor taught at the Teachers College, Columbia University from 1936 to 1942. 
1956 (Unknown) County
The Restoration Of Learning
(Pub: New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
? Bronx County
Mr. Bestor attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York. 
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