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Today I finished Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Eight hundred eighty pages serialized in the usual nineteen parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It was not an easy read but it was worthwhile. Bleak House was written after Oliver Twist and David Copperfield but before A Tale of Two
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture By Heather Mac Donald St. Martin's Press In her superb book The Diversity Delusion, Heather Mac Donald explains how reflexive accusations of racism and sexism, the demand for "safe spaces," and
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Last week, over 100 Hawaiians flew to Boston to commemorate the commissioning of missionaries at historic Park Street Church two hundred years ago. Many Hawaiians leaders made the journey. Peter Young, the great-great-grandson of the mission's leader, Hiram Bingham, played a key role in the celebration at the
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight Simon & Schuster October 2018 Frederick Douglass was the Martin Luther King Jr. of the 19th century. Former slave, author, orator, and statesman, Douglass was the principal black figure in the fight to abolish slavery. Over his long career, he became
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It was truly inspirational to view the ceremony honoring some of the incredibly brave survivors of the June 6, 1944 D-Day assault on the beaches of Normandy. What tremendous courage and heroism! They deserve our everlasting thanks and gratitude. And then there are those who did not survive the assault
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"These crowd madnesses recur so frequently in human history that they must reflect some deeply rooted trait of human nature. … There seems to be a cyclical rhythm in these movements. A bull market, for example, will be sweeping along and then something will happen — trivial or important — and first
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De Gaulle By Julian Jackson Harvard University Press August 2018 928 pages In his magisterial biography of de Gaulle, Julian Jackson has done us a great service: he has distilled the thousands of books and articles about Charles de Gaulle into a brilliant, fascinating biography. He has written, in fact,
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Christian Di Spigna has done a great service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: he has written a superb biography of Joseph Warren – the great Boston-based revolutionary leader, who was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He titles the biography: Founding Martyr – The Life and Death of Dr.