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My summer reading has included several biographies of the Roosevelts, most recently No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin. These books show another side of the Greatest Generation: widespread racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, sexism, xenophobia, and other social blights that hindered … Continue reading →

Rep. William H. Gray III, August 20, 1941 – July 1, 2013. A memory: In 1987, Bill, a Philadelphia congressperson, was breakfasting with American Baptist sisters and brothers on Capitol Hill. Evangelist Oral Roberts had just announced he would die … Continue reading →

Why hoarding is good. I was leafing through some old books this afternoon and this half-century-old letter slid out. I was trying to get an interview with Ex-VP Richard Nixon for the high school newspaper and wasn’t surprised when his … Continue reading →