Raised on a Utah egg farm, Mr. Covey was educated at the University of Utah, Harvard University and at Brigham Young University, where his doctoral thesis concerned the history of American "success literature, " such as Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

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He has taught history and Islamic studies at Harvard and the University of Chicago.

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Oscar Handlin in Social History of America at Harvard University in the 1950s that the vitality of our nation was the stream of immigrants in the 19th century looking for opportunity, religious freedom, political equality.

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