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Children of Crisis: selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series ; with a new introduction by the author
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States. Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of cr...more
Paperback, 736 pages
Published
July 30th 2003
by Back Bay Books
(first published January 1st 1967)
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I guess reading a rich and quite thick book also entitles to a fairly large review...:)
It's an interesting experience, reading this book. It's like a long travel back in time, seeing hardship and great people, simple people, ordinary people coping with it. And there's of course the advantage of being part of the future -with repspect to those times- which allows for a zoom out and a detachment every now and then.
It teaches me every page more that judgement is not something within our handreach,...more
It's an interesting experience, reading this book. It's like a long travel back in time, seeing hardship and great people, simple people, ordinary people coping with it. And there's of course the advantage of being part of the future -with repspect to those times- which allows for a zoom out and a detachment every now and then.
It teaches me every page more that judgement is not something within our handreach,...more
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Child psychiatrist, author, Harvard professor.
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