Is a College Education Still Worth the Price?

A former dean looks at American higher education and finds ...


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Michael O'Brien

Michael O’Brien was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and studied at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a Ph.D. in history.  He is the author of the widely praised John F. Kennedy: A Biography, a full-scale study based on eleven years’ research into letters, diaries, financial papers, medical records, manuscripts, and oral histories; and a concise analytical life of the president, Rethinking Kennedy.  He is now emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley, and lives in Door County, Wisconsin.