Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
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Biographies Are a Wonderful Way of Getting a Richer Understanding
There is very little interest of teaching, space for that. If something you know is really inspires you, it is great to be able to research it. I got to go all over the us. It was wonderful a to digging out different archives and finding material. The biography is a wonderful insight into how things work. You can do an over view. And i'm strongly of the view that biographies are a wonderful way of obgaining a richer understanding of things. That was why i wanted to write a biography of polakov, almost from those earliest days.
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