Rugby Tennessee : being some account of the setllement founded on the…

"Rugby created a generation of leaders with a sense of duty to their country: with a belief in the nobility of hard work, honor, and selflessness; and with a determination to work for the betterment of those less fortunate than themselves." "Hughes and many other "old boys" carried these values into their post-school lives in Victorian England. Thomas Hughes became an advocate for Britain's first labor unions and workingmen's colleges. He went on to serve in Parliament, and eventually planted his Christian Socialist ideals in the backwoods of Tennessee, where he established the Utopian community named Rugby after his beloved alma mater. In Rugby, Tennessee. Hughes describes the then-new community and his motivations in founding it. As Benita J. Howell points out in her lucid and informative new introduction, the book represents an important moment in late-Victorian English thought."--BOOK JACKET.