And, as a student of classics, he used all the Socratic tricks. I wonder if, ultimately, we don't all get our ideas about education that way. One reviewer took me to task for that, but I dismissed her review as a piece searching mostly for the Monica Lewinsky story embedded in my book. The book is really about ideas and about education, as well as about a brilliant and flawed individual. Naming the name of someone who wouldn't even grant me an interview hardly seemed to matter.
Proposals fro individual papers, panel discussions and other presentation formats are welcome.
DeSalvo, noted Virginia Woolf biographer and the author of recently released autobiographies, Vertigo and Breathless, writes about her use of Virginia Woolf in the classroom and, perhaps of slightly more interest to our SIG, publishes an advice to neophyte biographers in the Hermeneutical Portraits column of the journal. American National Biography to be released in 1999 Since many SIG members were involved in preparing entries for the ANB, we are anxiously awaiting its release sometime this spring. It is a reference work that captures the life of the American nation through the lives of its people, from the country's earliest origins up through the end of the twentieth century. The result of taking such a broad view of American history is a highly informed work that brings readers the most complete understanding of the influences that have affected, and that continue to shape, the identity of the nation.