ROB HENDERSON IS A RARE YOUNGexample of a dying breed: Cambridge scholar, public intellectual and unsentimental writer. These qualities radiate from his new memoir, Troubled, which recounts his “miraculous trajectory” through family dysfunction, foster care, the United States Air Force and into high academia.
Henderson’s story begins in his personal etymology — each of his names is taken from a family member that abandoned him for one reason or another — or, indeed none
