Review
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Sharon Stone Survived to Tell Us About It
If you, like our reviewer Theresa Forsman, generally do not read celebrity memoirs, you may want to make an exception for Sharon Stone’s new book.Read More
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Book Review: ‘The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West’
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This book on the Indian Wars, published a few years ago, stayed with member David Bland and changed his way of thinking about global events in the 21st century. So he is sharing a review.Read More
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Goodwill and good luck propelled philanthropist and cultural statesman behind a cosmetics empire
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in ReviewReviewed by Doris Friedensohn Leonard Lauder’s memoir, The Company I Keep (HarperCollins, 2020), celebrates family and a storied, multi-billion-dollar family business. Now in his late ’80’s, the author still exudes an almost youthful […]
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Book Review of ‘A-Theism: Believe It or Not’
In the year before his death in 2017, retired literature professor Richard Lettis compiled many of his thoughts on atheism, as well as the convictions of philosophers, poets, and scientists, living and dead, on the topic. The result is “A-Theism: Believe It or Not.”Read More
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Memoir bridges the ordinary and extraordinary in medicine and life
In this memoir, lucky survivor Gabriel Brownstein takes the reader into doctors’ offices and emergency rooms but also into his life, including his happy marriage, his work, and his hobbies. The journey, says reviewer Doris Friedensohn, is riveting.Read More
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Ethical Review: ‘Airports are for Waiting and Other Traveler’s Tales’
Author: Doris Friedensohn (Full Court Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2018) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman “The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: […]
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Continuing the Conversation on White Privilege, Part Two
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Click here to read Part One A veteran activist, wizened and white, recently gave me this advice: I used to think I needed to understand how black people suffer from […]
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Speaking of Ethics: Living a Humanist Life
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Author: Joseph Chuman (CreateSpace, North Charleston, S.C., 2014) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn On the cover of Joseph Chuman’s Speaking of Ethics, a silhouetted male figure holds a bullhorn in his […]
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