James O. Freedman is the author of Idealism and Liberal Education, which reflects his experiences as president of first the University of Iowa and later Dartmouth College. "I have great faith in today's undergraduates," he states in the introduction. "I do not share the conventional wisdom that today's generation of college students lacks idealism and seeks only prevocational education, in the heady pursuit of material success." The combination of hope and wisdom expressed in this series of reflective essays make Mr. Freedman a thinker worth spending time with. "Books that influenced my development" John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate The Hedgehog and the Fox by Sir Isaiah Berlin The Least Dangerous Branch by Alexander Bickel The Plague by Albert Camus Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson Return to the Writers Read List

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