Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he began teaching in September 2008. From 1986 to 2008, Howard was a reporter for The New York Times, and 18 of those years, from 1990 to 2008, were spent working overseas... read more
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Africa first captivated New York Times journalist Howard W. French more than twenty-five years ago, but his knowledge of and passion for the continent has the depth of a lifetime association. His experiences there awakened him as nothing before to… read more
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The chapters on the Axial Age and the final chapter, The Great Western Transformation, relating myth and religion to modern literature, are fantastic. This is a slim volumn that covers a great deal of ground, often brilliantly.
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