Oral History

Filed under:Books,The Vietnam Project — posted by jonfrankel on June 20, 2011 @ 6:37 am

Robert Kennedy in his Own Words The Unpublished Recollections of Robert Kennedy edited by Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman Bantam Books, New York, 1988 “In my judgment, you would have accomplished much more if you had had a dictatorship during the period of time that President Kennedy was President, because you would have gotten [...]

My Ideas Are Very Simple

Filed under:Blogh — posted by jonfrankel on June 16, 2011 @ 5:53 am

Happy Bloomsday. Or is it Merry? I started to read Ulysses a week or so ago. I am not ashamed at all to admit that I was unable to finish Ulysses when I was 19. Before that I had made several attempts, and read The Odyssey, which was mostly useless in understanding the book. Visiting [...]