This comprehensive book by John Freely (d. 2017), professor of physics at Robert College and Boğaziçi University, tells the remarkable story of an American institution that, from its origins in the nineteenth century, evolved into one of the most prestigious Turkish universities and a respected institution on the global stage. Its foundations were laid in 1863 with the establishment of Robert College in Istanbul—the first American college founded outside the United States—by Dr. Cyrus Hamlin and ...