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126  Acknowledgments S pecialthankstoPeter Berg, HeadofSpecialCollections, Michigan State University Libraries, and archivist Anne-Marie Rachman for theirassistanceinputtingtogetherthiseditionandtheircontinuing stewardship of the Robert Coles Papers and the DoubleTake Archive. The editor gratefully acknowledges the continuing support of David Gift, Vice Provost of Libraries, Computing, and Technology, and Clifford Haka, Director of Libraries, Michigan State University. Patrick Kindig, an Honors College undergraduate research assistant, worked diligently and ably on several research and editorial tasks related to the production of this book. These columns were originally published in America. They are reprinted with the permission of Robert Coles and America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. R obert Coles is a child psychiatrist and professor emeritus of psychiatryandmedicalhumanitiesatHarvardUniversitywherehe wasnamedJamesAgeeProfessorofSocialEthicsintheGraduate School of Education. Coles is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Humanities Medal and the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He has had more than sixty honorary degrees conferred upon him. He is the author ofmorethanninetybooks.Colesisbestknownforhisbooksthatexplore children’s moral, political, and spiritual sensibilities. He is also known as aneloquentspokesmanforcommunityservice,civilrights,andthepublic responsibilitiesofacademics,writers,andintellectuals—subjectsofbooks like The Call of Stories, A Call to Service, The Secular Mind, Lives of Moral Leadership,BruceSpringsteen’sAmerica,and,mostrecently,LivesWeCarry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage, edited by David D. Cooper. Coles has written literary criticism, numerous biographies, reviews, poetry, social commentary, several children’s books, and regular columns for the New Republic, New Yorker, New Oxford Review, America, and American Poetry Review. In addition, Coles is founder and editor of the award-winning documentary magazine DoubleTake and the author of numerous works of documentary nonfiction, including The Story of Ruby Bridges, The Old Ones of New Mexico, and Doing Documentary Work. First appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry at the Harvard MedicalSchoolin1955,Coles’scareeratHarvardUniversity—chronicled recentlyinHandingOneAnotherAlong—spansforty-sevenyearsofteaching ,writing,andservicetocommunitiesofhard-pressedpeople,especially children, from Alaska to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Coles is a pragmatic moralist whose books and life are witness to the reality of the moral life at work in the world. Numerous critical studies stress Coles’s representative status as a thinker, writer, teacher, and activist in the American grain.  D avid D. Cooper is professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and former Senior EditorofFourthGenre:ExplorationsinNonfiction(MSUPress). Cooper edited Coles’s Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage (2010), and he has published several articles and essays on Robert Coles, including “Doing and Learning with Robert Coles” (1994) and “Moral Literacy” (1996). He was a regular contributor to DoubleTake, an award winning documentary magazine founded and edited by Robert Coles.  ...

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