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Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at an elite, boys-only New England boarding school. One of them, descended from wealth and eminence, would go on to Yale, then to a career as a navy officer and Vietnam war hero, and finally to the U.S. Senate, from where he would fall just short of the White House. The other was a scholarship student, a misfit giant of a boy from a Pennsylvania farm town who would suffer shameful debasements at the hands of his classmates, then go on to a solitary and largely anonymous life as a salesman of encyclopedias and trailer parts--before dying, alone, twelve months after his classmate's narrow loss on Election Day 2004.

It is around these two figures, John Kerry and a boy known here only as Arthur, the bookends of a class of one hundred boys, that Geoffrey Douglas--himself a member of that boarding-school class--builds this remarkable memoir. His portrait of their lives and the lives of five others in that class--two more Vietnam veterans with vastly divergent stories, a federal judge, a gay New York artist who struggled for years to find his place in the world, and Douglas himself--offers a memorable look back to a generation caught between the expectations of their fathers and the sometimes terrifying pulls of a society driven by war, defiance, and self-doubt.

The class of 1962 was not so different from any other, with its share of swaggerers and shining stars, outcasts and scholarship students. Its distinction was in its timing: at the precise threshold of the cultural and political upheavals of the late 1960s. The world these boys had been trained to enter and to lead, a world very similar to their fathers', would be exploded and recast almost at the moment of their entrance--forcing choices whose consequences were sometimes lifelong.

Douglas's chronicle of those times and choices is both a capsule history of an era and a literary tour de force..
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Ralph Kirshner has provided a richly illustrated forum to enable the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography Through letters, journals, and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames, and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and of their varied careers after the war.Two classes graduated from West Point in 1861 because of Lincoln's need for lieutenants: forty-five cadets in Ames' class in May and thirty-four in Custer's class in June. The cadets range from Henry Algernon du Pont, first in the class of May, to Custer, last in the class of June. "Only thirty-four graduated," remarked Custer, "and of these thirty-three graduated above me."Other famous names from the class of 1861 are John Pelham, Emory Upton, Thomas L. Rosser, John Herbert Kelly (the youngest general in the Confederacy when appointed), Patrick O'Rorke (head of the class of June), Alonzo Cushing, Peter Hains, Edmund Kirby, John Adair (the only deserter in the class), and Judson Kilpatrick (great-grandfather of Gloria Vanderbilt). They describe West Point before the Civil War; the war years, including the Vicksburg campaign and the battle of Gettysburg; the courage and character of classmates; and the ending of the war.Kirshner also highlights postwar lives, including Custer at Little Bighorn; Custer's rebel friend Rosser; John Whitney Barlow, who explored Yellowstone; du Pont, senator and author; Kilpatrick, playwright and diplomat; Orville E. Babcock, Grant's secretary until his indictment in the "Whiskey Ring"; Pierce M. B. Young, a Confederate general who became a diplomat; Hains, the only member of the class to serve on active duty in World War I; and Upton, "the class genius.""The Class of 1861", which features eighty-four photographs, includes a foreword by George Plimpton, editor of the Paris Review and great-grandson of General Adelbert Ames..
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From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.
The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in Santiago, Cuba's rich and ancient second city, where Fidel and Raul were educated in the 1930s and '40s. Patrick Symmes begins his story here, tracking down dozens of Fidel's schoolmates glimpsed in a single period photograph. And it is through their stories--their time at the Colegio; the catastrophic effects of the revolution on their lives; their fates since--that Symmes opens a door onto a Cuba, and a time in Castro’s life, that have been deliberately obscured from us. Here too is the elusive Raúl Castro, a cipher destined to rule Cuba in Fidel’s place.
We see Castro in his formative youth, an adolescent ruling the classrooms of the Colegio and running in the streets of Santiago. Symmes traces the years in which the revolution was conceived, won, and lost, describing the changes it wrought in Santiago and in the lives of Fidel’s own classmates: we follow them through the maelstrom of the 1960s, as most fight to leave Cuba and a few stay behind. And here, in Santiago today, Symmes finds Castro’s most lasting achievement, the creating and sustaining of a myth-soaked revolutionary idealism amid the harshest realities of daily life.
Wholly original in its approach, The Boys from Dolores is a powerfully evocative, eye-opening portrait of Cuba--and of the Castro brothers--in the twentieth century..
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An epidemic That is how it is being reported, as the number of children being diagnosed is multiplying faster than an explanation for the occurrence What lessons are we to learn and what lessons are for us to teach? Citsitua guides the way to tolerance, acceptance and perhaps a more meaningful reason for these children's presence and presents. Embrace his world and be changed forever, as you gently step into his uniqueness and acknowledge those qualities in all of us that have been tucked away. Enjoy the whimsical art that brings the words to life as you read privately or to your child(ren) for all to appreciate each of our differences as gifts to celebrate and honor..
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The evil prosthesis of Captain Hook, the comical speech of Porky Pig, and the bumbling antics of Mr. Magoo are all examples of images in our culture which can become the basis of negative attitudes and subliminal prejudice towards persons with disabilities. These attitudes influence and underlie discriminatory acts, resulting in negative treatment and segregation. A teacher's ability to recognize and counter such images may well determine the success of inclusion and mainstreaming programs in our schools and society. Well-researched and well-written, this book offers practical guidance as grounded in solid research to schools that are wrestling with how to mainstream children with disabilities..
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Ayiana and the Hurricane Katrina Classmate is based on the main character Ayiana Cimone Powell. Ayiana is a mature, sensitive, African-American teenager, who helps a classmate affected by Hurricane Katrina transition to some form of stability. GinaMarie uses the characters Annie Marie and Geneva Reece, Gertrude Jefferson, and Katherine Cater as staples to complete the “tangible humanity.” Ayiana and the Hurricane Katrina Classmate is a story that will make children of all ages, from all walks of life, “unselfishly” embrace anyone in need..
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An epidemic. That is how it is being reported, as the number of children being diagnosed is multiplying faster than an explanation for the occurrence. What lessons are we to learn and what lessons are for us to teach? Citsitua guides the way to tolerance, acceptance and perhaps a more meaningful reason for these children's presence and presents. Embrace his world and be changed forever, as you gently step into his uniqueness and acknowledge those qualities in all of us that have been tucked away. Enjoy the whimsical art that brings the words to life as you read privately or to your child(ren) for all to appreciate each of our differences as gifts to celebrate and honor..
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Emily Clarkson has a new teaching position. But when she arrives expecting her employer to be a gentleman, she's shocked to find a brute. He's expecting a somber old maid, not an impertinent girl. And neither expects the passion that soon overtakes them both..
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"Lesson Planning" provides a one stop resource for busy teachers wishing to plan effective lessons along with plans to aid key issues such as behaviour management.In this fully updated third edition, Graham Butt provides indepth practical advice on how to plan lessons effectively. Topics covered include: understanding the importance of lesson planning; planning for difference; using lesson plans to aid behaviour management; and, examples of effective lesson plans across the curriculum..
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