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Gene Wilder discusses his new World War I adventure
Gene Wilder, the son of russian Jewish immigrants, was born in Milwaukee in 1933. Read more >>
You can go there too, even to the Bates Motel
Pork Barrel
A “Call it Pork or Necessity, but Alaska Comes Out Far Above the Rest in Spending.” This headline—from The New York Times—was for a story about the $388 billion federal Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2005. Read more >>
“The founding of the United States experience: 1763-1815”
The Founding of the United States Experience (Presidio Press, 64 pages, $50) earns the slightly unwieldy last word in its title, because digging into this handsome volume creates an experience much like rooting through a treasure-filled attic. Read more >>
The book that taught GI’s how to behave in England