Hilene Flanzbaum
By Hilene Flanzbaum
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Culture The Jewish First Lady at Legendary Lawmaker Wyatt Earp’s O.K. Corral
● Lady at the O.k. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp By Ann Kirschner Harper Collins, 304 pages, $27.99 As a kid, I perfected a strategy for beating anyone at “Twenty Questions.” I always chose not someone famous, but the wife of someone famous. My opponent would say, “Was she an actress?” No….
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Books Paul Goodman Speaks for Half a Generation
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in an Organized Society By Paul Goodman Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake New York Review Books, Classic Series, 312 pages, $17.95 Reading Paul Goodman’s reissued 1960s classic “Growing Up Absurd” may make you nostalgic for a past you never lived. The author’s uncomplicated idealism evokes an earlier decade of…
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