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Robert Coles

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.

Stricken Boston

A City in Terror: 1919
The Boston Police Strike

by Francis Russell

August 7, 1975 issue

Shrinking History—Part Two

Shrinking History—Part Two

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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March 8, 1973 issue

Shrinking History—Part One

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 and William C. Bullitt

Leonardo da Vinci: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Enigma

by Kurt Eissler

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 and Juliette George

Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences, Vol. 4

edited by Warner Muensterberger, edited by Sidney Axelrad

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February 22, 1973 issue

Exchange

Bruce Mazlish

An Exchange on Psychohistory

May 3, 1973 issue

Letter

Benjamin Nelson

Psyche-History

October 4, 1973 issue

Understanding White Racists

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 and 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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December 30, 1971 issue

Letter

Joel Kovel

Psychohistory

March 9, 1972 issue

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