Tales from America's Golden Age: A Life on the Privilege Spectrum

How does a white male Christian escape the confines of being born to privilege? This book is an impressionist memoir. Its many short and very short stories stand alone like many-colored daubs of pigment on an impressionist's canvas. But if you step back and view them as a whole, they become a portrait of a guy who has lived along the privilege spectrum during a shining stretch of America's sprawling saga, from World War II until the huge transfer of wealth to the top 1% from the rest of us that began during the Reagan Administration. A sampling: - Making mischief at Harvard - World War II touches Brooklyn - Serving in the Army of Occupation in Germany during the Cold War - The skinny on the innards of a major Wall Street law firm - A prosecutor blows the whistle on the sham prosecution of police who perpetrated the 1971 Attica prison massacre; he pays the price and reaps unexpected rewards - The single-parent social scene in Fairfield County, CT, during the flowering of women's lib in the 1970s - Co-raising a girl and boy as the parent without custody - Risking prison to protect Salvadorans and Guatemalans from being summarily sent to the death squads they had fled - Standing with four valiant and determined women in their quest for peace and justice
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Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Bell, Malcolm
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use