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 Ronald Takaki "History Of The People, ByThe People For The People" Leipzig cheap hotelsRonald Takaki — the academic pioneer who founded the study ofmulticultural history — is not the person he appears to be. Having read critiques of his works, I thought he might not knowthe names “Thomas Jefferson” and “Abraham Lincoln” despite the factthat he teaches American history. But his critics are way off. Not only does he have a depth of knowledge about these twopresidents, he’s a big fan of their ideas about equality. Even more startling, theman considered a stereotypical liberal academic by many conservatives considers America asuccess. Takaki also has an interesting personal history. The first personin his family to attend college, Takaki earned his doctorate at Berkeley and became deeplyinvolved in the campus’ student protests in the 1960s. He first taught at UCLA butwas fired five years later. And he decided to break from traditional academicbooks andwrite history of the people, by the people and for the people after a conversation overbeer with his uncle. “Ideas are not static.They’re not frozen. They’re not permanent. BOOKS
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