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Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq

Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq

Kevin J.A. Thomas

McGill-Queen's University Press
2017
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In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission's success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce. While thousands of US troops were needed to secure victory in the field, large numbers of civilian contractors - many from poor countries in Africa and Asia - were recruited to provide a range of services for the occupying forces. In Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq Kevin Thomas provides a compelling account of the recruitment of Sierra Leonean workers and their reasons for embracing the risks of migration. In recent years US military bases have outsourced contracts for services to private military corporations who recruit and capitalize on cheaper low-skilled workers. Thomas argues that for people from post-conflict countries such as Sierra Leone, where there are high levels of poverty and acute unemployment, the opportunity to improve their situation outweighs the risk of migration to war-torn Iraq. Examining migrants' experiences in their native country, at US bases, and after their return to Sierra Leone, Thomas deftly explores the intricate dynamics of risk, sets up a theoretical framework for future researchers, and offers policy recommendations for decision-makers and practitioners in the field. Incorporating the voices of Sierra Leonean contractors who were manipulated and exploited, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq turns the spotlight on a subject that has remained on the periphery of history and reveals an unexpected consequence of the War on Terror.
Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq

Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq

Kevin J.A. Thomas

McGill-Queen's University Press
2017
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In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission's success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce. While thousands of US troops were needed to secure victory in the field, large numbers of civilian contractors - many from poor countries in Africa and Asia - were recruited to provide a range of services for the occupying forces. In Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq Kevin Thomas provides a compelling account of the recruitment of Sierra Leonean workers and their reasons for embracing the risks of migration. In recent years US military bases have outsourced contracts for services to private military corporations who recruit and capitalize on cheaper low-skilled workers. Thomas argues that for people from post-conflict countries such as Sierra Leone, where there are high levels of poverty and acute unemployment, the opportunity to improve their situation outweighs the risk of migration to war-torn Iraq. Examining migrants' experiences in their native country, at US bases, and after their return to Sierra Leone, Thomas deftly explores the intricate dynamics of risk, sets up a theoretical framework for future researchers, and offers policy recommendations for decision-makers and practitioners in the field. Incorporating the voices of Sierra Leonean contractors who were manipulated and exploited, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq turns the spotlight on a subject that has remained on the periphery of history and reveals an unexpected consequence of the War on Terror.
Alexis Rockman: a Fable for Tomorrow

Alexis Rockman: a Fable for Tomorrow

Joanna Marsh; Kevin J. Avery; Thomas Lovejoy

D Giles Ltd
2010
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'Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow' traces the artist's career from 'Pond's Edge' (1986) to 'The Reef' (2009), with its timely reminder of the perils of off-shore oil drilling. Superficially easy viewing, Rockman's paintings subvert the optimism of the American dream with their mix of scientific precision and environmental degradation. This vividly illustrated volume highlights the attention to detail and striking use of colour which give Rockman's work an almost cinematic impact that is seldom seen in contemporary art. His compelling mix of intensely coloured realism, scientific detail and strong polemic, result in art that is both a demand for action and an elegy over what has been lost. Author Joanna Marsh worked closely with Rockman on the painting selection and convincingly links the various themes of the artist's work over three decades with the history of America's environmental movement. Highlights include 'Evolution' (1992), his first mural-sized painting, and 'Manifest Destiny' (2003-04), an ambitious large-scale work commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Rockman's ability to cross the boundary between fact and fiction appeals to both scientists and art critics.
Trinitarian Doxology

Trinitarian Doxology

Kevin J Navarro; Thomas a Noble

Pickwick Publications
2020
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Most approaches to liturgical theology are anthropocentric: the study of liturgy is primarily focused on what we, the worshipers, do. Thomas F. Torrance and James B. Torrance offer a trinitarian and christocentric approach. This informs not only the ""why"" of worship and not simply the ""what"" or ""how"" of worship, but centers on the One whom we worship. Most significantly, it fully recognizes the key role of the humanity of Christ as the ascended High Priest who alone offers the perfect worship and through whom alone we are enabled by the Spirit to worship God.
Global Epidemics, Local Implications

Global Epidemics, Local Implications

Kevin J. A. Thomas

Johns Hopkins University Press
2020
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How fear and stigma affected the lives of African immigrants during the global Ebola epidemic—and the resilient ways in which immigrant communities responded.In December 2013, a series of Ebola infections in Meliandou, Guinea, set off a chain of events culminating in the world's largest Ebola epidemic. Concerns about the virus in the United States reached a peak when Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national visiting family in Dallas, became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola and die of the disease on US soil. In Global Epidemics, Local Implications, Kevin J. A. Thomas highlights the complex ways in which disease outbreaks that begin in one part of the world affect the lives of immigrants in another. Drawing on information from a community survey, participant observations, government documents, and newspapers, Thomas examines how African immigrants were negatively affected by public backlash and their agency and resilience in responding to the consequences of epidemic. Ultimately, this book shows how these responses underscore the importance of immigrant resources for developing public health interventions.
Diverse Pathways

Diverse Pathways

Kevin J. A. Thomas

Michigan State University Press
2014
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Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that American conceptions of race result in significant inequalities in the ways in which African immigrants are socially integrated. Thomas argues that suggestions that Black Africans are model-minorities who have overcome the barriers of race are misleading, showing that Black and Arab-ethnicity Africans systematically experience less favourable socioeconomic outcomes than their White African counterparts. Overall, the book makes three critical arguments. First, historical and contemporary constructions of race have important implications for understanding the dynamics of African immigration and settlement in the United States. Second, there are significant racial inequalities in the social and economic incorporation of contemporary African immigrants. Finally, Arab ethnicity has additional implications for understanding intra-racial disparities in incorporation among contemporary African immigrants. In general, these arguments are foundational for understanding the diversity of African immigrant experiences.
Life After Epidemics

Life After Epidemics

Kevin J. A. Thomas

Johns Hopkins University Press
2026
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Examining the long-term social consequences of epidemic survival in post-Ebola West Africa. What happens to survivors when an epidemic ends and the headlines fade? In Life After Epidemics, Kevin J. A. Thomas confronts this pressing question through the voices of those who lived through the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Based on interviews with 250 survivors in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the book reveals how, years after their recovery, many continue to endure long-term health issues, economic hardship, and social exclusion, conditions which are often exacerbated by their preexisting marginalization. The 2014–2016 West African Ebola epidemic left more than 17,000 survivors. Yet even as governments and international agencies celebrated medical successes and invested in disease surveillance and vaccine development, they offered minimal attention to the social realities unfolding in the epidemic's aftermath. This book documents how the lack of sustained social response through support for livelihoods, reintegration, and long-term care has had lasting consequences on former patients and their communities. Thomas argues that these devastating consequences are even worse for those already facing poverty, stigma, and social invisibility. Yet amid these challenges, many survivors have found ways to reframe their experiences, participate in recovery efforts, and forge new roles within their communities. Their stories speak not only to resilience but to the unfinished work of public health systems that still treat survival as a conclusion rather than a beginning. Life After Epidemics makes the case that addressing the aftermath of outbreaks must go beyond emergency medical responses to encompass the complex social dimensions that shape recovery while reconsidering what it means to truly heal after crisis.
Dictionnaire Étymologique, Historique Et Comparé Du Français de Louisiane

Dictionnaire Étymologique, Historique Et Comparé Du Français de Louisiane

Kevin J. Rottet; Albert Valdman; Thomas A. Klingler

De Gruyter
2026
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Cet ouvrage constitue l'un des plus minents dictionnaires diff rentiels traitant des vari t s de fran ais hors de France. Il s'appuie sur le mat riel contenu dans le Dictionary of Louisiana French (2010) en fournissant une tude approfondie de l'histoire et de l' tymologie des lex mes du fran ais de Louisiane qui diff rent du fran ais de r f rence par leur forme ou leur sens. Pour chacune des 634 entr es individuelles, les r dacteurs ont consult les diverses sources traitant des autres vari t s nord-am ricaines du fran ais (laurentienne, acadienne, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, le Missouri, la Nouvelle-Angleterre), de celle de l' lot de Saint-Barth lemy, des parlers dialectaux de France, ainsi que des cr oles de la zone atlantique et de l'oc an Indien, afin de d terminer leur origine et leur parcours. Cette approche historique et compar e jette un nouvel clairage sur la richesse de la culture et de l'histoire de la Louisiane francophone et contribue une meilleure compr hension de la place du fran ais de Louisiane au sein du monde francophone. Ce dictionnaire constituera une r f rence essentielle pour le fran ais de Louisiane et servira de mod le pour de futurs travaux lexicographiques et lexicologiques sur les vari t s r gionales de fran ais.
Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course

Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course

Lee J. Epstein; Kevin T. McGuire; Thomas G. Walker

CQ PRESS
2023
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Excellent balance of case excerpts and author explanation, highly appropriate for undergraduate students. --Dr. Wendy Brame, Briar Cliff University Political factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to shape the development of constitutional doctrine. Drawing from political science as much as from legal studies, Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course helps students realize that Supreme Court cases are more than just legal names and citations. With meticulous revising, the authors streamline material while accounting for recent landmark cases and new scholarship. Ideal for a one semester course, the Ninth Edition of A Short Course offers all the hallmarks of the Rights and Powers volumes (also included in the Constitutional Law for a Changing America series) in a more condensed format. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title's instructor resources into your school's learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don't use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.
Environmental Law Handbook

Environmental Law Handbook

Kevin A. Ewing; Duke K. McCall; David R. Case; Marshall Lee Miller; Daniel M. Steinway; Karen J. Nardi; Christopher Bell; Stanley W. Landfair; Austin P. Olney; Thomas Richichi; F. William Brownell; Jessica O. King; John M. Scagnelli; James W. Spensley; Rolf R. von Oppenfeld; Andrew N. Davis

Bernan Press
2019
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The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance. The Environmental Law Handbook continues to provide individuals across the country—professionals, professors, and students—with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-read look at the major environmental, health, and safety laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Because it is written by the country's leading environmental law firms, it provides the best, most reliable guidance anywhere. Both professional environmental managers and students aspiring to careers in environmental management should keep the Environmental Law Handbook within arm's reach for thoughtful answers to regulatory questions like: ·How do I ensure compliance with the regulations? ·How do the latest environmental developments impact my operations? ·How do we keep our operations efficient and our community safe? The Handbook begins with chapters on the fundamentals of environmental law and on issues of enforcement and liability. It then dives headfirst into the major laws, examining their history, scope, and requirements with a chapter devoted to each. The 24th edition of this well-known Handbook has been thoroughly updated, covering major changes to the law and enforcement in the areas of Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate Change, Oil Pollution, and Pollution Prevention. This is an essential reference for environmental students and professionals, and anyone who wants the most up-to-date information available on environmental laws.
Year Book of Surgery, 2016

Year Book of Surgery, 2016

Kevin E. Behrns; Kenneth A. Andreoni; John M. Daly; Thomas J. Fahey III; O. Joe Hines; James R. Howe; Thomas S. Huber; Charles T. Klodell Jr; David M. Mozingo

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2016
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The Year Book of Surgery brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in general surgery, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. The Year Book of Surgery is published annually in June, and includes topics such as: General Surgery; Trauma; Burns; Critical Care; Transplantation; Surgical Infections; Would Healing; Oncology; Vascular Surgery; and General Thoracic Surgery.
Inside Assisted Living

Inside Assisted Living

J. Kevin Eckert; Paula C. Carder; Leslie A. Morgan; Ann Christine Frankowski; Erin G. Roth; Bill Thomas

Johns Hopkins University Press
2009
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Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues facing consumers, providers, and policy makers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents, their family members, staffers, and administrators, Inside Assisted Living opens the window on day-to-day life in six different types of assisted living residence. From "Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home" to "Mr. Sidney at Laurel Ridge," the detailed profiles of individuals show the commonalities among the residences while highlighting the positive and negative aspects of each. The voices of those living, visiting, and working in the homes clarify the important local (social relations, staff dynamics, leadership) and national (funding, regulation, aging-in-place) challenges presented by assisted living. Introductory and concluding chapters synthesize new findings that cross the six settings and reflect issues vital to all participants. The book also features an appendix detailing the research process involved in creating the profiles.
Everyone Is a CEO: Customer Experience Originator

Everyone Is a CEO: Customer Experience Originator

Kevin J. Thompson Mpa

Inspired Communications LLC
2015
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Does your organization deliver good customer service?Most organizations believe they do but in reality their customer service is transactional at best. The desire for your organization to be recognized as a market leader, stand out from the crowd and beat the competition can be achieved by transformational service culture change."Everyone Is A CEO" combines the concepts of organization leadership and transformational service culture change in a framework where everyone develops unforgettable experiences for your customers. The combination of these concepts is revealed in the book's title where CEO stands for Customer Experience Originator. The CEO Process will help you leverage the uniqueness of your organization adopting strategies to create unforgettable customer experiences.
SCN2A-Related Disorders

SCN2A-Related Disorders

Megan Abbott; Kevin J. Bender; Andreas Brunklaus; Scott Demarest; Shawn Egan; Isabel Haviland; Jennifer A. Kearney; Leah Schust Myers; Heather E. Olson; Stephan J. Sanders; Christina SanInocencio; Joseph Symonds; Christopher H. Thompson

Cambridge University Press
2025
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SCN2A encodes a voltage-gated sodium channel (designated NaV1.2) vital for generating neuronal action potentials. Pathogenic SCN2A variants are associated with a diverse array of neurodevelopmental disorders featuring neonatal or infantile onset epilepsy, developmental delay, autism, intellectual disability and movement disorders. SCN2A is a high confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder and a commonly discovered cause of neonatal onset epilepsy. This remarkable clinical heterogeneity is mirrored by extensive allelic heterogeneity and complex genotype-phenotype relationships partially explained by divergent functional consequences of pathogenic variants. Emerging therapeutic strategies targeted to specific patterns of NaV1.2 dysfunction offer hope to improving the lives of individuals affected by SCN2A-related disorders. This Element provides a review of the clinical features, genetic basis, pathophysiology, pharmacology and treatment of these genetic conditions authored by leading experts in the field and accompanied by perspectives shared by affected families. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
SCN2A-Related Disorders

SCN2A-Related Disorders

Megan Abbott; Kevin J. Bender; Andreas Brunklaus; Scott Demarest; Shawn Egan; Isabel Haviland; Jennifer A. Kearney; Leah Schust Myers; Heather E. Olson; Stephan J. Sanders; Christina SanInocencio; Joseph Symonds; Christopher H. Thompson

Cambridge University Press
2025
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SCN2A encodes a voltage-gated sodium channel (designated NaV1.2) vital for generating neuronal action potentials. Pathogenic SCN2A variants are associated with a diverse array of neurodevelopmental disorders featuring neonatal or infantile onset epilepsy, developmental delay, autism, intellectual disability and movement disorders. SCN2A is a high confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder and a commonly discovered cause of neonatal onset epilepsy. This remarkable clinical heterogeneity is mirrored by extensive allelic heterogeneity and complex genotype-phenotype relationships partially explained by divergent functional consequences of pathogenic variants. Emerging therapeutic strategies targeted to specific patterns of NaV1.2 dysfunction offer hope to improving the lives of individuals affected by SCN2A-related disorders. This Element provides a review of the clinical features, genetic basis, pathophysiology, pharmacology and treatment of these genetic conditions authored by leading experts in the field and accompanied by perspectives shared by affected families. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy

The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy

Allan E. Buckwell; David R. Harvey; Kenneth J. Thomson; Kevin A. Parton

Routledge
2019
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First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and how it was financed. This book describes the CAP situation and summarises previous attempts to assess some of the economic and financial flows arising from its creation using a common framework of well-established economic theory and methods. The CAP turned out to have a number of ‘costs’, depending on the concept of ‘cost’ used, the alternative policies considered, and the various assumptions made. The bulk of the book presents the structure and results of a comprehensive model of European Community agricultural markets and the associated CAP support mechanisms. This model is validated against official Community budget figures and then run to simulate a number of policy options and their consequences. This title will be of interest to students of economics, geography and agriculture.
The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy

The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy

Allan E. Buckwell; David R. Harvey; Kenneth J. Thomson; Kevin A. Parton

Routledge
2021
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First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and how it was financed. This book describes the CAP situation and summarises previous attempts to assess some of the economic and financial flows arising from its creation using a common framework of well-established economic theory and methods. The CAP turned out to have a number of ‘costs’, depending on the concept of ‘cost’ used, the alternative policies considered, and the various assumptions made. The bulk of the book presents the structure and results of a comprehensive model of European Community agricultural markets and the associated CAP support mechanisms. This model is validated against official Community budget figures and then run to simulate a number of policy options and their consequences. This title will be of interest to students of economics, geography and agriculture.
Living My Shadows

Living My Shadows

Kevin I J a Barnett

Outskirts Press
2017
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"They told me I wouldn't live to be 2 yrs. old because they found me starving on someone's porch.... I'm 55 now.... They told me I wasn't smart enough and that I didn't need a higher education...... I have an AA, BS and MS. They told me I would never be part of anything worthwhile. I'm a member of MD-Military-Holding-Lodge No. 122 - MWPHGL of Maryland, The Monday Cub (Oldest Social Club for African-American Men in Delaware and maybe the Nation--1876) recently resigned, The Drill Sergeant Association, and Bethel AME Church to name a few. They told me the Army wasn't the way to go and I was wasting my time and the organization wouldn't teach me anything. I was Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant, Detachment NCOIC, CID Investigator, Drill Sergeant and an EO Advisor for 5,000 Soldiers and Civilians just to name a few. It has taught me a lot. They told me I couldn't run a full marathon. I finished in the top half. They told me I was too small for martial arts--I received a 2nd degree black belt in Hapkido and a Red Sash (Chamber 5) in Kung-Fu. They told me that I will fail in life. The Lord has blessed me with a lovely wife, four grown men (sons), a lovely stepdaughter, and six grandchildren. It was rough getting there, but I'm here." (Started from the bottom) They told me I would never, never find my bloodline. Well, I found my birth mother, father, sisters and brothers and a host of cousins and combined my bloodline to my family that raised me and taught me everything I needed to know about life altogether into one big happy family. I now have two mothers and fathers. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THOSE THINGS.... KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, AND LIVE YOUR DREAMS. MAKE NO EXCUSES....
George Washington: A Life in Books

George Washington: A Life in Books

Kevin J. Hayes

Oxford University Press Inc
2017
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When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally singled out as the great minds of early America. Up until the present day, George Washington has never been taken seriously as an intellectual. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams and most of the men who knew Washington were unaware of his regular devotion to reading as a program of self-improvement. Based on an exhaustive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes draws on juvenilia, letters, diaries, pamphlets, and the close to 1,000 books owned by Washington to reconstruct the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of the first US president. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt a sense of acute embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this lively literary biography, Hayes reconstructs how Washington worked tirelessly to improve his mind. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes engages with Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes also engages with Washington's writings as well as his readings, starting with The Journal of Major George Washington and going through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion. Ultimately, The Books of George Washington's Life offers a startling new perspective on the mind of America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of young America.