The little boy’s father has a good heart, but he drinks. Goes on weeklong benders. It’s the early 1920s, a bad time to be a drunk: Prohibition has arrived and the Depression isn’t far behind. The boy recalls childhood fears of an absent father followed by “loud voices in the night.” At age 11, he […]
July 1981
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On Political Books
Those who know Joseph Califano’s life story but have not seen his book might have two reasons for wanting to read it: to see what he has to say about Jimmy Carter, the man who hired and then fired him as secretary of health, education, and welfare, and to find out what lessons this old […]
