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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) “Living in the Material World” is Olivia Harrison’s book tribute to her husband. For me, immersed as I am in AMERICAN STORY and attuned to the early times we emerged from (times often overlooked) I […]

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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but […]

There was a period in my life—London circa 1970—when I immersed myself in this extraordinary book. Today (2012) I’m reading Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces who often appears to me to write with a certainty that the breakthroughs of Jung, Freud and their contemporaries would usher back in to the modern world […]

In AMERICAN STORY I credit David McCullough’s book John Adams with triggering my exploration into history (and about American history, this was true), but some years before that I picked up William Manchester’s book on Winston Churchill’s life: “The Last Lion.” By the time I finished reading the introduction (quoted below) I was hooked and […]

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As I write in some length in AMERICAN STORY, Neil Postman’s book AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH affected me profoundly and still does. That the book has been translated into eight languages and sold over two hundred thousand copies (Wikipedia) takes it out of the realm of the obscure but, for me, its importance (It’s embedded […]

“In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. A foot or more of snow covered the landscape, the remnants of a Christmas storm that had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after […]

Photo: Robert Altman Even before our world view guides us to discriminate between good and evil, it disposes us to discriminate between real and unreal, true and false, meaningful and meaningless. Before we act in the world, we must conceive of a world; it must be there before us, a sensible pattern to which we […]