Robert Coles
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Summary
In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impact Springsteen’s work has had both on the lives of his audience and on this country’s literary tradition. Coles places Springsteen in the pantheon of American artists—Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange, and Walker...
3) Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series
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Pub. Date
2009
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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 crisis": African American children caught in the throes of the South's...
Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of crisis": African American children caught in the throes of the South's...