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The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon famously said, “you might call it Chuck Berry.”
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Greil Marcus’s Mystery Train
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The American Pageant were often used in “advanced placement”
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me
Both exemplify the message of UCLA’s coach John Wooden: “I wanted players who had character, not players who were characters.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Searching for Sugar Man
Todd Henry • Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
Malcolm X was a realist
50 Cent • The 50th Law
For the creative revolution also demonstrated to young people with a humanistic bent that it was not necessary to “drop out” to find fulfilling work.