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This is child psychologist Dr. Fredric Wertham, and in 1954, he wrote a book called "Seduction of the Innocent," where he argues that comic books cause juvenile delinquency.

He spent most of his career working with juvenile delinquents, and in his work he noticed that most of his clients read comic books.

What Dr. Wertham failed to realize was in the 1940s and '50s, almost every kid in America read comic books.

Dr. Wertham does a pretty dubious job of proving his case, but his book does inspire the Senate of the United States to hold a series of hearings to see if in fact comic books caused juvenile delinquency.

They ended inconclusively, but not before doing tremendous damage to the reputation of comic books in the eyes of the American public.

Comic books and graphic novels are now finally making their way back into American classrooms and this is even happening at Bishop O'Dowd, where I used to teach.

America is finally waking up to the fact that comic books do not cause juvenile delinquency.

There's no good reason to keep comic books and graphic novels out of K-12 education.

They don't just give us books or words about this.

Books alone, books written by lone individuals, are not going to change anything.

I see people who want to make a better world, by doing groundbreaking scientific work, by creating impressive works of art, by writing critical articles or inspiring books, by starting up sustainable businesses.

The truth is, women, you've had our back on this issue for a very long time, starting with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" to Theo Colborn's "Our Stolen Future" to Sandra Steingraber's books "Living Downstream" and "Having Faith."

But instead, I choose to focus on the activities that I can do through things that I’m passionate about, like scouting, or music, or comic books, or any of my favorite Boston sports teams.

And as great as these books were, you could always tell that you were getting close to the full effect.

I've been illustrating books since I was 16.

All along, all fantasy books have always had maps, but these maps have been static.

And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.

I had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.

And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books.

And so I put my books away, back in their suitcase, and I put them under my bed, and there they stayed for the rest of the summer.

I felt as if the books needed me somehow, and they were calling out to me and I was forsaking them.

And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.

And if you look at the self-help books from this era, they all had titles with things like "Character, the Grandest Thing in the World."

And sure enough, the self-help books change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

I have a suitcase full of books.

But these are not exactly my books.

I brought these books with me because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors.

My grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was growing up, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence and partly because it was filled with books.

I mean literally every table, every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books.

So extroverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books.

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