I am not worthy. That’s what I was thinking throughout my lunch with Sally Kempton and Betsy Carter, two of the most impressive women I know. One, Betsy, is a longtime friend; the other, Sally, a long-lost friend who, until just about the day of that lunch, had been known for two decades as Swami Read More
” In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was hourly asked … in the Cathedral city of Barchester …. Who was to be the new Bishop? “-Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
Well, in the latter days of July in the year 2002, a most important question was hourly Read More
” In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was hourly asked … in the Cathedral city of Barchester …. Who was to be the new Bishop? “-Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
Well, in the latter days of July in the year 2002, a most important question was hourly Read More
American National Biography , by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, general editors. Oxford University Press, 24 volumes, $2,500.
The American National Biography is a literary milestone, a kind of Human Genome Project for the advancement of historical understanding. Here, in 24 volumes and 17,453 life sketches, is the DNA of who and what Read More
