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McMillian added that the decision to write the book was influenced by a course on radicalism both assistants taught with Columbia professor Eric Foner...
...other sensible twenty-year-old would have been blissfully unaware of anything going on so early on a Sunday morning in the middle of July, but I was pumped up and ready to start my day. In one hour (drumroll, please), I was going to interview Gerald Sarwer-Foner, a retired psychiatrist from Detroit...
...fact that my 9 a.m. plans meant little to anyone else made them all the more special to me. Sarwer-Foner was going to be my third interviewee for my senior thesis—a relatively obscure physician for a relatively obscure topic: the history of insulin coma therapy for schizophrenia. If that doesn’t ring a bell, Russell Crowe convulsing violently through the window of Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital, as a pained Jennifer Connelly looks on, probably does. John Nash, the subject of A Beautiful Mind, received the now-defunct therapy for schizophrenia. (Incidentally, convulsions only occurred...
...remaining 40 minutes, I had to set up my dictaphone, make sure the speakerphone on my telephone was working, prepare a list of questions and re-read some comments Dr. Sarwer-Foner had made at a 1958 conference on the use of insulin in psychiatry. As I prepared, I felt the adrenaline rush that came with knowing I was completely steeped in academia...
Susan Kim, a counselor at Van Nuys, says Mira's parents were also "really, really enthusiastic about higher education, about an Ivy League education." While her older sister chose Berkeley, Mira picked Columbia and took courses like "The American Radical Tradition" with famed U.S. historian and author Eric Foner...