Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 141. Chapters: Juan Cole, Gerhard Weinberg, John Dewey, Elizabeth Warren, Joseph Brodsky, List of University of Michigan faculty and staff, Andrew Dickson White, Richard H. Bernstein, Vojislav e elj, Robert Frost, Rick Snyder, George Herbert Mead, Michael Daugherty, Lynn Conway, Thomas Trueblood, Albert Pattengill, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Carl Cohen, Paul Ziff, C. A. Patrides, Charles Tilly, William Revelli, Bernie Machen, Brand Blanshard, James D. Morrow, Kenneth J. Pienta, R. Joseph Hoffmann, William Murphy (tennis), Charles Cooley, Frank H. Wu, Michael D. Cohen, James Bennett Griffin, Anthony Kenny, Artur Schnabel, Robert D. Putnam, Leslie White, X. J. Kennedy, Kendall Walton, Thomas Benton Cooley, Eugene W. Hilgard, Donald A. Glaser, David Buss, Carleton B. Joeckel, Wei Shyy, Bruce Conforth, Donald Hall, James Simrall, Kenneth Binmore, Herman Goldstine, Jaegwon Kim, John McCollum, Mary P. Sinclair, David M. Halperin, William Gould Dow, Andrei Markovits, Charles Mills Gayley, Everett Rogers. Excerpt: John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole (born October 1952) is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com). Cole was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father served in the United States Army Signal Corps. When Cole was age two, his family left New Mexico for France. His father completed two tours with the U.S. military in France (a total of seven years) and one 18-month stay at Kagnew Station in Asmara, Eritrea (then Ethiopia). (Cole reports that he first became interested in Islam in Eritrea, which has a population roughly half Christian and half Muslim.) Cole was schooled at a variety of locations, twelve schools in twelve years, at a series of dependent schools on military bases but also sometimes in civilian schools. Some schooling occurred in the United States, particularly in North Carolina and California. Cole obtained his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in 1975, having majored in History and Literature of Religions. For two quarters in his senior year he conducted a research project in Beirut, Lebanon and returned to the city as a graduate student in the fall of 1975, but the civil war prevented Cole from continuing his studies there. Therefore he pursued a Masters degree at the American University in Cairo in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, graduating in 1978. Cole then returned to Beirut for another year and worked as a translator for a newspaper. In 1979 Cole enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles as a doctoral student in the field of Islamic Studies, graduating in 1984. A