The only door that shut

Card 02 of 8 · The Passholder · The Switching Yard

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“Had I been given tenure at Harvard, I would have been delighted and I would have stayed. … I want to influence the world, shape American policy.” He was thirty-one. It is the one entry on the list that was refused, and it is the one that redirected everything. Harvard offered him a chair two years later and he turned it down.

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