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Book Review: Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen
Imagine yourself repeatedly moving from place to place in and around the Boston, New England area in the years following 1832. Times were rugged. In winter, houses were cold except for drafty...
View ArticleDiscontented and Mad as Hell in Cheese Whiz Land
“I can’ts takes it no more…got-sta eat me spin-itch-gah.” Gulp, gulp, gulp! (Dan-danhh-danh-dannnneh from Beethoven’s fifth.) It now appears as Madison is besieged, so goes the nation. But should,...
View ArticleBook Review: Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick’s new title asks a question: Why Read Moby-Dick? (New York: Viking Press; 2011; $25). Inside this tiny hardback, author Philbrick offers answers to that question on 131 numbered...
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