PETER N. CARROLL is the author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books, including The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the SpanishCivil War; They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in Wartime (with Anthony L. Geist); and a volume of poetry, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem. He teaches at Stanford University.

A brilliant, witty, touching, and consistently thoughtful book . . . Carroll succeeds in uniting the personal with the professional; in uniting the growth of a New York City working class boy with that of a tenured college professor. Carroll situates the scholar squarely in the world that made him and that he in turn helped to make.

PETER N. CARROLL is the author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books, including The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the SpanishCivil War; They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in Wartime (with Anthony L. Geist); and a volume of poetry, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem. He teaches at Stanford University.

A brilliant, witty, touching, and consistently thoughtful book . . . Carroll succeeds in uniting the personal with the professional; in uniting the growth of a New York City working class boy with that of a tenured college professor. Carroll situates the scholar squarely in the world that made him and that he in turn helped to make.

PETER N. CARROLL is the author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books, including The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the SpanishCivil War; They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in Wartime (with Anthony L. Geist); and a volume of poetry, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem. He teaches at Stanford University.

A brilliant, witty, touching, and consistently thoughtful book . . . Carroll succeeds in uniting the personal with the professional; in uniting the growth of a New York City working class boy with that of a tenured college professor. Carroll situates the scholar squarely in the world that made him and that he in turn helped to make.