How come nobody knows about Frances Perkins? The subject of The Woman Behind the New Deal was FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the mastermind behind massive social programs including Social Security and Medicaid — and she came very, very close to pushing through a comprehensive health care insurance program, which only failed because of massive [...]
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March 2, 2009
The Way We’ll Be by John Zogby
The author of The Way We’ll Be sets out to show us our future as a country but alas, his strong roots as a political pollster show and we are treated to the usual two irksome sins of pollsters. One is what statisticians call fishing expeditions: let’s collect umpteen facts, run correlations on all of them without [...]
May 13, 2008
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
A young woman and her husband move to the house next to that of an older woman who’s still married to but no longer living with her philandering husband, the senator. A friendship develops between the women even if the younger one never understands the older one’s tolerance and love for her husband after all [...]
