Mr. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY (Editor, Library of America Edition): Their breakthrough came in the late '50s because you started having Marlon Brando and James Dean becoming the new outlaw heroes on the big screen, and there Kerouac broke through as kind of the thinking man's Marlon Brando.

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Douglas Brinkley, editor of the Library of America edition of Jack Kerouac's Road novels.

NPR: 'On the Road' at 50

"They want access to capital, and limited liability, but they want the control of a private company, " says Nell Minow, editor of the Corporate Library, a shareholder advocate.

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"At this transitional moment for the NYSE, it should not be putting on its board anyone associated with the kind of scandal that Putnam has been through lately, " says Nell Minnow, founder and editor of The Corporate Library.

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His failure to keep disagreements within the walls of the boardroom contributed just as much or more to an atmosphere of distrust as did the company's decision to snoop on him, says Nell Minnow, editor of the Corporate Library, which monitors governance issues.

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