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The Call of Stories
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As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including
, Robert Coles knows better than anyone the transformative power of learning and literature on young minds. In this "persuasive" book (
), Coles convenes a virtual symposium of college, law, and medical school students to explore the phenomenon of storytelling as a source of values and character.
Here are transcriptions of classroom conversations in which Coles and his students discuss the impact of particular works of literature on their moral development. Here also are Coles's intimate personal reflections on his experiences in the civil rights movement, his child psychiatry practice, and his interactions with his own literary mentors including William Carlos Williams and L.E. Sissman. The life lessons learned from these stories are of special resonance to doctors and teachers looking to apply them in classroom and clinical environments.
The rare public intellectual to be honored with a MacArthur Award, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a National Humanities Medal, Robert Coles is a true national treasure, and
is, in the words of National Book Award winner Walker Percy, "Coles at his wisest and best."
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