February 29, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 99) • Page Image 65
… BOOKS Advocate for the Homeless Jonathan Kozol offers uncommon wisdom t would be unthinkable today, but not 25 years ago. In the spring of 1963 Jona- than Kozol, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate, walked out on his Rhodes schol- arship, rented a small room in Paris and set out to write a novel. After four years he returned to Boston with a rare insight into his Ivy League experience. "It had taken me all that time to realize that while I knew s...…