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Article: Lives on the Boundary.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 16, 1990
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To his life as a whole he was a consenting, contracting party and partner from the moment he was born to the moment he died:' wrote Henry Adams in his autobiography. "Only with that understanding-as a consciously assenting member in full partnership with the society of his age-had his education an interest to himself or to others." Though the conditions of Mike Rose's birth and the nature of his family background could not have been more different from Adams's, the personal educational voyage Rose describes in Lives on the Boundary, because it involves assent, full partnership and engagement with central issues of the society of our age, is of interest to us. It is also a ...