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Educated: A painful, honest memoir of family vs. self

July 19, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Literature/Arts/Film, People Leave a comment

A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon

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Memoirs may be the best thing that Barack Obama can give us now

June 7, 2013 Arthur Lieber Corporations, Democrats, Federalism, Health care, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Obama, Politics, Poverty, States, Voting/Elections 3 comments

The presidency seems to becoming more and more of a burden for Barack Obama, even though we are only halfway into the first year

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