Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Life and Letters -- Becoming an Educator -- The Joys of Collecting Books -- A Dukedom Large Enough -- Presidential Prose -- The Stillness and the Courage -- 2. Content and Character in Liberal Education -- The Teaching of Values in a Liberal Education -- The Promise of Equality -- The Organization of Knowledge -- Science and Liberal Learning -- Liberal Education and the Legal Profession -- The Lessons of the Law -- The Professor's Life -- 3. Models for Shaping a Life -- Public Selves, Private Selves -- The Power of Idealism -- The Value of Intellectuals -- Insiders and Outsiders -- Thurgood Marshall: Man of Character -- The Capacity of Imagination -- Originals and Copies -- Those Who Are Truly Great -- Ordinary Backgrounds, Extraordinary Men -- Essayists and Solitude -- Index.