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From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book for a time when parents anxiously aspire to raise "super children" and experts worry the nation is wasting the brilliant young minds it needs.

Ann Hulbert examines the lives of children whose rare accomplishments have raised hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it. She probes the changing role of parents and teachers, as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, who push back against adults more as the decades proceed. Among the children are the math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a Harvard graduate student at age fifteen; two girls, a poet and a novelist, whose published work stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple and the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and autistic "prodigious savants"; and musical prodigies, present and past. Off the Charts also tells the surprising inside stories of Lewis Terman's prewar study of high-IQ children and of the postwar talent search begun at Johns Hopkins, and discovers what Tiger Mom Amy Chua really has to tell us. But in these moving stories, it is the children who deliver the most important messages.

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  • Title Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
  • Author Ann Hulbert
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publication date 2018-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781101947296 / 1101947292
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.3 in (23.88 x 16.51 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Gifted persons - United States, Gifted children - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017003438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 371.950

About the author

ANN HULBERT is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children and The Interior Castle: The Life and Art of Jean Stafford. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic, where she is the literary editor. She is a graduate of Harvard and spent a year at Cambridge University. She lives with her husband in Washington D.C.
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