Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Thomas Eakins. Twelve children with tested intelligence above 180, followed through school and into adult life: what such a mind does to a childhood, and what the schools of the 1930s did to it. Leta Hollingworth founded the study of gifted children in America; she died before the book was finished, and her husband completed it from her case records. She is unsparing about isolation, and the chapter on what these children needed and did not get is the reason the book is still cited. Fifty-eight plates of portraiture and family scenes by Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, 1826 to 1904, echo the study's long look at individual children and the homes that shaped them.