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about President Wilson, they respond with enthusiasm. They say that
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
jingoism;
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
He wrote Forrest Ashby that he was thinking of moving to Canada to be a high school teacher.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
But the centaur lesson remains: the more a task shifts to an open world of big-picture strategy, the more humans have to add.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
the trust revolution—
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
What the student needed above all was the chance to learn to think for himself. So he ought to pursue the line of investigation that interested him most, just as, conversely, a professor ought to be perfectly free to devote his own efforts however he chose. One term, a course of twenty-one lectures was offered on sharks alone, a favorite topic of t
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
By the time he was twenty-eight, Alan had parlayed a night gig intended to pay for college into a small-town business empire.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
The New York Times typified the obituaries: “Greatness became him, and was a condition of his errand here. Whatever he had done, it had been greatly done. He trusted democracy perhaps more than it trusts itself. He believed in its economic destiny. Giving much, he received much. We salute the memory of a great American.”
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
The American Pageant were often used in “advanced placement”