1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown'until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around. When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man wearing a mot
Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference
โ Scribed by Edmundson, Mark
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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