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Last night, Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Ron Suskind spoke with Cedric Jennings, the subject of his new book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League...
About 300 people came to see Suskind and Jennings at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Education Forum...
...Suskind's novel and Pulitzer-Prize- winning Wall Street Journal articles document Jennings' journey from one of the nation's worst inner-city public schools, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Washington D.C., to Brown University...
...Both Suskind and Jennings agree that the unwavering motivation of Barbara Jennings, Jennings' mother, was a prerequisite for his success...
...Although Suskind believes Jennings possesses admirable traits, including "faith, perseverance, self-knowledge and grit," the author admits that Jennings is "nothing special...