Cushman Row, New York City, 1999
Charles, as well as his grandfather and great-uncle all
studied there. The the latter two, Mark and Carl, went on
to become influentially renown scholars, literary critics
and members of the Columbia faculty.
But it was the ardent alumnus of another Ivy League
university who inspired Adam Van Doren: A
Yale Sketchbook, which was issued this past April. The
celebrated historian David McCullough, a collector of the
artist's work, made the straightforward suggestion to him
last summer: " 'I want you to do Yale.' "A demure book,
barely bigger than one of those tastefully designed softcover publications referred to as "trade paperbacks", the
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