Did you know that before Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) wrote children’s books and played with language he was a political cartoonist for PM, a favorite read for New Deal liberals? His cartoons are fiercely anti-fascist, pro-intervention and critical … Continue reading
I’ve just started a really fun biography, Irrepressible: the Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham. It’s a wild ride through the roaring twenties and beyond with an outrageous heroine and the author is one of her descendants. … Continue reading
Lives of Pirates Book of Pirates containing Narratives of the Most Remarkable Piracies and Murders, committed on the High Seas Together with an Account of the Capture of the Amistad and a Full and Authentic Narrative of the Burning of … Continue reading
