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A signed 1st edition in near fine condition and sold without a dust jacket. The HB is in near fine condition. There are on the Afterword pages 310 to 313 the markings of its previous inspired young owner: one orange magic marker arrow, four underlined passages in blue ink, one blue ink down arrow, one blue ink arrow and three check marks. Based upon the newsworthy speech the author gave to the graduating seniors at Wellesley Public High School on June 12, 2012. Note: he is the son of the late great historian David McCullough. Seller Inventory # 010009
Bibliographic Details
Title: You Are Not Special: . And Other ...
Publisher: Ecco, New York
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: WH Hyde and Others
Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition.
Book Type: Book
About this title
A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life.
Children today, says David McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the famous historian—are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success. The intense pressure to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self-confidence from those failures.
In You Are (Not) Special, McCullough elaborates on his now-famous speech exploring how, for what purpose, and for whose sake, we're raising our kids. With wry, affectionate humor, McCullough takes on hovering parents, ineffectual schools, professional college prep, electronic distractions, club sports, and generally the manifestations, and the applications and consequences of privilege. By acknowledging that the world is indifferent to them, McCullough takes pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do something useful with their advantages.
David McCullough, Jr. taught for sixteen years at Punahou School in Honolulu and has been teaching at Wellesley High School near Boston since 2002. He lives with his wife and four children in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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