One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life." - Meaning and context.">
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One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

— Charles A. Reich

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life." in the context of "As quoted in Washington Post in (1987) and "Charles Reich’s Journey From the Yale Law Journal to the New York Times Best-Seller List: The Personal History of The Greening of America" by Rodger Citron, in The New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 52, (2007/2008), p. 416" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Charles A. Reich

About Charles A. Reich

Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.