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    Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted: Second Edition
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    Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted: Second Edition

    By Ruth Duskin Feldman

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    “…a terribly moving series of portraits of those precocious children who became premature celebrities.”— Studs Terkel“…a fascinating look at the lives of child prodigies…a longitudinal study of gifted children that is sincerely told.”— Deborah Earle The Quiz Kids radio and television program was a national institution in the 1940s and 1950s. Ruth and a few other top contestants were guests on the Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and Eddie Cantor shows, starred in movie shorts, and traveled all over the United States selling war bonds during World War II.Did the Quiz Kids fulfill their youthful promise? What were the fruits — bitter and sweet — of their childhood experience? What are the lessons for gifted children today? Ruth interviewed her Quiz Kid colleagues to find out how being celebrated for their “brains” affected their lives. The result is Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuth Duskin Feldman Words and Pictures
    Release dateMar 14, 2014
    ISBN9781625360922
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    Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted: Second Edition
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    Ruth Duskin Feldman

    Ruth Duskin Feldman began her career in the 1940s as a radio-television Quiz Kid. Today she is an award-winning freelance writer and editor. The first of her eight published books, Chemi, the Magician (Dodd Mead, 1947), came out when she was 13. Her second book, Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted (Chicago Review Press, 1982; iUniverse, 2000), received major nationwide media coverage. She has coauthored four college textbooks, including leading texts on human and child development, has lectured widely on the rearing of gifted children, and has contributed to many national and local publications. She edits the journal Humanistic Judaism.

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