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The Family Dynamic

By Susan Dominus

The Family Dynamic

By Susan Dominus

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"Investigative journalist Susan Dominus profiles six families with several exceptionally accomplished children in order to tease apart the various factors that might have led to their success, including inherited tendencies. She starts with the iconic Brontèe sisters, whose remarkable literary success inspired endless speculation about the reason for so much talent under one roof. Dominus ... then moves to the present moment, relating the ... trajectories of families from diverse cultural, racial, and socio-economic backgrounds, including young parents from China who fled the one-child policy to open a Chinese restaurant in Appalachia and sent four children to elite colleges and careers that give back in technology and medicine; the Groff family, whose claim to fame is not just an award-winning novelist but an Olympic athlete and a notable entrepreneur; and the Holifields, raised in the Jim Crow South and boasting two powerful attorneys, both Harvard law school graduates, and a cardiologist, all three influential, in their own ways, in civil rights. Woven into these and other inspiring stories is an account of centuries of scientific research into the question of nature vs. nurture in predicting outcomes"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2025-03-04
Publication Date:
2025-05-06
Publisher:
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593137906
ISBN13:
9780593137901
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
552 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
36 cm
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