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Law Practice

Nov. 13, 2019

Reading and writing to change the world

Any who would write and speak must read and listen.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

Reading and writing to change the world
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I love browsing in libraries. That is among the activities that might not endure another generation, because both the books and the institutions that hold them are said to be obsolete, which in our virtual era is effective to render them just that. On my last visit to the local branch, I spied on the shelf of new arrivals a biography of Henry David Thoreau published for the bicentennial of his birth. I am wondering whether to read this account, since I have enjoyed...

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