Robert Coles is a psychiatrist and writer. Until recently, he was the Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. His many books include The Moral Intelligence of Children and Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Coles received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Children of Crisis, a MacArthur Award in 1981, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, and the National Humanities Medal in 2001.
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Growing Up East German
July 16, 1981
Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany by Joel Agee
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In Loco Parentis
November 23, 1978
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Lost Generation
September 28, 1978
The Children Are Dying by Ned O'Gorman
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Psychiatry and Politics
March 9, 1978
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Victims of Soviet Psychiatry: A Report from Honolulu
October 27, 1977
Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used to Suppress Dissent by Sidney Bloch, by Peter Reddaway
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Stricken Boston
August 7, 1975
A City in Terror: 1919The Boston Police Strike by Francis Russell
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Children and Politics: Outsiders
March 20, 1975
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The Politics of Middle Class Children
March 6, 1975
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What Children Know About Politics
February 20, 1975
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Psyche-History
October 4, 1973
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An Exchange on Psychohistory
May 3, 1973
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Shrinking HistoryPart Two
March 8, 1973
The Kennedy Neurosis: A Psychological Portrait of an American Dynasty by Nancy Gager Clinch
The Mind of Adolf Hitler by Walter C. Langer
Leonardo da Vinci: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Enigma
by Kurt Eissler
In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry by Bruce Mazlish
The Revolutionary Personality by E. Victor Wolfenstein
Young Man Luther by Erik Erikson
“Leonardo and Freud: An Art-Historical Study” Essays edited by P. Kristeller and P. Wiener [Harper & Row] and in Ideas in Cultural Perspective edited by P. Wiener and A. Noland [Rutgers]) by Meyer Schapiro
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Shrinking HistoryPart One
February 22, 1973
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud, translated by Alan Tyson, edited by James Strachey, edited by Alix Strachey, edited by Anna Freud, edited by Alan Tyson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study by Sigmund Freud, by William C. Bullitt
Leonardo da Vinci: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Enigma
The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr
Psychoanalysis and History
edited by Bruce Mazlich
Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art by Ernst Kris
Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study by Alexander George, by Juliette George
Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences, Vol. 4 edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad
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The Case of Michael Wechsler
May 18, 1972
In a Darkness by James A. Wechsler
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Psychohistory
March 9, 1972
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Understanding White Racists
December 30, 1971
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm
The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno et al.
Psychoanalytic Study of Society edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad
White Racism by Joel Kovel
One Dimensional Man
by Herbert Marcuse
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, by Walker Evans
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind by Simone Weil, translated by Arthur Wills
Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel by C. Vann Woodward
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Dialogue Underground: Inside and Outside the Church
April 8, 1971
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Dialogue Underground: II
March 25, 1971
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A Dialogue Underground
March 11, 1971
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Senator Goodell
October 22, 1970
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Teaching the Unteachable
February 23, 1967
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Controversy: Replies to Bettelheim’s “Schooling is Not Enough”
October 22, 1964