Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City Charter School.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. First edition of this journalistic analysis of charter school life from the library of American journalist William Safire. Octavo, original half cloth. Autographed letter to American journalist William Safire laid in. As thanks for his thoughtful announcement in the word column, the note reads in part, "I am touched by the effort and generosity that went into the plug you gave my book. I hope you know what an enormous difference it makes in the trajectory of the book's life. I'll not soon forget this kindness." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jonathan Schorr. Jacket design by Derek Walls. Author photograph by Laura Turbow. "A fresh and important ground-level look inside the most important movement in education today. By getting to know teachers and students, Schorr deftly takes charter schools out of the realm of abstraction and makes them real" (Jonathan Alter, Newsweek).