“The beginning is always today.” (quote, Mary Shelley)
so get started…
Amusing Ourselves to Death (book review)
Neil Postman nailed it 35 years ago
The Founders’ Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America
Willard Randall documents it: money talks (book review)
Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South
…the North forgot about slavery (book review)
Reconstruction After the Civil War (book review)
mostly, nothing changed
The Man Who Broke Capitalism (book review)
Jack Welch, all-American what?
Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (book review)
as they saw it in mid-19th century…
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships (book review)
Robin Dunbar says friendship is all about trust…
The Scarlet Letter, victim of Hollywood
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s version is best
“…the frosted flowing stream…” (“The water way,” poem)
…defies the glaze of winter







