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Hamlet of Morningside Heights
Author: Kenneth Craven
Date Of Publication: Nov 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3343-1
Isbn: 1-4438-3343-6
This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Craven’s detective work finds for the first time Apostle Paul’s ethical principles integrated throughout the play. The insights that emerge from this discovery reverberate throughout American culture today, explaining dramatic shifts in values that have cascaded down the generations. These dynamics reflect Craven’s lineage: a fascinating mix of genial humanists, fiery ideologues, and effective, business-minded Yorkers traced back to Shakespeare’s London. Craven melds groundbreaking literary insight with reflection on his own life, a continuing search for and demonstration of executive power.

Kenneth Craven, an authority on Shakespeare, Swift, Locke, Sterne, and Tolstoy, is also a humanist, intellectual historian, corporate planner on infrastructure, psychotherapist, and Kremlinologist. He holds a PhD from Columbia University, New York, USA, and served on the faculty of the City University of New York. He has worked as a consultant for AT&T, Xerox, and IBM. In 1961, Dr Craven published the landmark study Science Information Personnel for the National Science Foundation that created the first doctoral programs and schools in information and computer science.

“Nobody beside Dr Craven ever studied the way that Paul’s Epistle to the Romans affects the play Hamlet. It has staggeringly wide-ranging implications, many of which are identified in this account of how and when these thoughts resounded in Dr Craven’s mind.”

– Andrew Gurr, Director of the Renaissance Texts Research Centre

“I’ve just finished reading the magisterial conclusion to your autobiography. It is an astonishing tale of discoveries personal, scholarly, and of the origins and nature of modern culture. Of course it would be preposterous to expect such discoveries from anyone, but somehow as I read it seemed right that you would be the person to see these things. I feel privileged to be among your readers. Thank you for this.”

– Frank T. Boyle, English Professor, Fordham University

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