Draws on diary entries and correspondence from student to tell the story of the early years of Haskell Institute, a government boarding school designed to "civi

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of Ameri

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