As A Southerner Born After The Epic

The Government Invented The Internet.

America Has Long Raised Political And Cultural Cognitive Dissonance To An Art Form. We Are Capable Of Living With Enormous Inequality And Injustice While Convincing Ourselves That We Are In Fact Moving Toward What Churchill Called The "broad, Sun-lit Uplands."

Environmental Concern Is A Little Like Dieting Or Paying Off Credit-card Debt - An Episodically Terrific Idea That Burns Brightly And Then Seems To Fade When We Realize There's A Reason We Need To Diet Or Pay Down Our Debt. The Reason Is That It's Really, Really Hard, And Too Many Of Us In Too Many Spheres Of Life Choose The Easy Over The Hard.

With The Perspective Afforded By The Passage Of Time, Where Does 9/11 Rank As A Turning Point In Our National History? For The Victims And Their Families, Innocents Going About Their Lives, Suddenly And Brutally Murdered, No Other Day Can Ever Matter As Much.

In Rich And Captivating Prose, Jessica Dulong Kindly Invites The Rest Of Us On The Journey Of Her Lifetime: From A Dot-com Job To The Fabled Waters Of The Hudson River, Where She Became A Fireboat Engineer. This Is An Unusual And Fascinating Book.