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Karl Weber: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Karl Weber is a writer and editor specializing in topics from business and personal finance to politics and current affairs.

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Still Waiting for Superwoman

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To read the complete article, please click here. * * * What Michelle Rhee’s fans don’t get about education reform The national press and political class adore Michelle Rhee, who ran the D.C. public schools from 2007 until 2010. She’s [.].

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Still Waiting for Superwoman

First Friday Book Synopsis

To read the complete article, please click here. * * * What Michelle Rhee’s fans don’t get about education reform The national press and political class adore Michelle Rhee, who ran the D.C. public schools from 2007 until 2010. She’s [.].

Class 75
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Don’t Know Much About History: David McCullough on “historical illiteracy”

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To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * The popular historian David McCullough says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.” Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011).

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The Wealth of Nations: A book review by Bob Morris

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A Wiley Company (2010) How and Why The Wealth of Nations is “one of the most important and influential books ever written.” The Wealth of Nations: The Economics Classic Adam Smith with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Captstone Publishing Ltd./A

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The Wealth of Nations: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

A Wiley Company (2010) How and Why The Wealth of Nations is “one of the most important and influential books ever written.” The Wealth of Nations: The Economics Classic Adam Smith with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd./A

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The best commencement address yet to be delivered: “Students Don’t Know Much About History”

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In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.”