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Article: Gilded cliches form the beloved Dr. Robert Coles
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 26, 1986
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The Moral Life of Children By Robert Coles. Atlantic Monthly Press.
$19.95.
The Political Life of Children By Robert Coles. Atlantic Monthly
Press. $19.95.
Robert Coles has become, in the accurate phrase used by his
publisher, "one of the nation's best-known and best-loved
psychiatrists." At Harvard, where he teaches a variety of courses,
including one on Charles Dickens and the Law, he is something of a
cult hero, and, indeed, by now most educated Americans have an image
of him - gaunt as a runner, dark-eyed as a silent film star, leaning
slightly forward, listening.
Listening, of course, is what Coles does very well, not only
because of his clinical training but because of a certain ...