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When a long-time public school educator accepts a high paying position as a central office administrator, little does he know that decisions made at central office are based not on educational considerations, but on political ramifications. He is soon caught between the interests of committed and devoted educators and those whose primary concern is their own professional careers. Whether anyone emerges unscathed and with integrity intact, and whether the concerns of the students and the taxpayers matter at all to those in charge, are questions which every community member should demand...

Describing Italy as "the only region of the earth that I truly love," James Fenimore Cooper used the style of picturesque impressionism to convey his vision of Italy as the microcosm of an ordered and a beautiful world.

In theory, the picturesque style of writing could produce verbal sketches that embodied a visual complexity similar to that of the great Baroque and Romantic landscape paintings. In practice, the hundreds of travel books written in the picturesque style in the early 1900s communicated rapturous enthusiasm with blurred or even false reports of actual scenes. Cooper, with...