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Essay: The End of Tenure?
Freedom Trains
Hannibal Rising
Crime: My Flesh Is Your Canvas
Colin Powell's Journey from 'Soldier' to Statesman
Author Karen DeYoung's profile of the former secretary of state is a nuanced and balanced look at a career military officer, steeped in traditions of loyalty and duty, who was thrust into the subtle political battlefield of Washington, D.C.
Book Explores Intellectual Power of William James
William James was an intellectual force of nature in 19th century America. Trained as a medical doctor, he saw links between the life sciences, psychology and philosophy, and was a seminal thinker on religion. Author Robert D. Richardson has written a new biography called William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism.




