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...Associate Professor of Government Samuel J. Popkin is subpoenaed to testify before a Boston grand jury in the Ellsberg case. Popkin refuses to answer questions, claiming that to do so would compromise his sources and his future in academia. He is jailed, prompting Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to lead a petition effort on Popkins' behalf. Popkin is eventually released...
...more important than a resume, Coles, even now, professes that the traditional trappings of isolated academia are stifling. For Coles, his life and his work examining children and culture depends not on abstract theory inside the Ivory Tower, but the stories of ordinary people struggling with their circumstances...
...reviewing Coles's career, one tends to forget that since he left the South in 1964, he has had to balance his activism with the demands of academia...
...Schlesinger did not beat a path to employment inside the Beltway after his graduation--if anything, he prepared himself to remain firmly entrenched in academia...
...Path to Academia...