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The Classmates

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Author : Geoffrey Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2008-06-03

The Classmates written by Geoffrey Douglas and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with Education categories.

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.

The Classmate

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895

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The Speaker S Complete Program

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Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

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Confessions Of The Classmate Who Never Was Northfield School For Girls Class Of 1964

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Author : Susan Chapman Melanson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-07-13

Confessions Of The Classmate Who Never Was Northfield School For Girls Class Of 1964 written by Susan Chapman Melanson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

At 16-years-old, Melanson spent the summer waitressing at the summer conferences at Northfield School for Girls. The New England backdrop included the 125-room Schell Chateau. Her adventures include a grand tour of the Chateau under the cloak of darkness and is documented with photos and floor plans. She pleaded with her parents to send her to the boarding school, but their answer was "No". Nevertheless she retained an attachment to the school. When she became an adult she began giving to the alumnae fund because she believed in the ethic of the school. One year a flustered alumnae secretary phoned asking what class she had been affiliated with, presuming the undocumented alum had probably flunked out. Her answer was "Why 1964!" After that she was invited to reunions and her "news" appeared in the alumnae publications. In 2004, came the announcement that the Northfield campus was closing. That was the spark that prompted her to return for "her" 40th Reunion. This is that story.

The Odontoblast

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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Phillips Brooks House

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

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Record Of The Graduate Members

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Author : Yale University. Class of 1849
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895

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The Report Of The Secretary

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Author : Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1863
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

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School Recreations And Amusements

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Author : Charles Wesley Mann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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Deseret Sunday School Song Book

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Author : Deseret Sunday School Union
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

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