LELAND'S JOURNAL

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March/April 1997

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"There's a certain idealism and commitment you see in freshmen that horrifically disappears a little later. To get them that young is a good thing."

--English professor Jay Fliegelman on the new freshmen seminars the University will offer.

This is a story of human redemption, spanning a six-year period in the lives of two remarkable men. One was a mild-mannered Stanford mathematics professor of national prominence. The other was a hardened, self-educated convict serving out his time at the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Their relationship began with a flurry of letters in the late autumn of 1950.

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