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Catherine Gowrie's father, Don, is close to his greatest ambition - nomination as Presidential candidate - and nothing must be allowed to stand in his way. But Sophie Narodni, a young journalist from Prague, carries a secret that could destroy everything that Don had dreamed of. ... Read more

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent and prolific American feminist writer most well known today for her first book, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), and her seminal work Women and Economics (1898). Gilman founded, edited, and wrote for the journal Forerunner, in which she serialized her novel Herland in 1915. She also co-founded the Women’s Peace Party. In her time, Gilman did not receive due recognition for her work, but many modern feminist writers have since reflected Gilman’s ideologies, and acknowledged her influence. Herland is a fascinating work depicting a feminist utopia, a society formed solely of women. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short horror story based on her own bout with mental illness and misguided medical treatment.

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4156 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: "History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past," by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, describe the experiences of the three authors when they reevaluated the teaching of history in the US for a program sponsored by the Bush administration. Their approach unfortunately dismisses the truth of the traditional great events in US history and concentrates on the minor currents defined by the politics of multiculturalism and women's studies. All voices should be heard, but in their proper context.

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Title: The problem of democratic history.(political correctness in teaching history)
Author: Keith Windschuttle
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1998
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 16Issue: 10Page: 22(1)

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An intimate memoir of the author's journey when her mother, an eccentric and humorous Southern charm school owner, moves into a retirement condo. The year-long story progresses through the changes that occur when a parent becomes ill: opportunities aries for healing old wounds, and new dreams surface as old ones fade. The book has many hilarious moments as Hill brings readers into a series of unexpected and insightful experiences. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

More than a Memoir
We live in a life-care community. I shall try to give this book to our health care center activities person, and to anyone I know who is having difficulties with dementia in a loved one, as well as to the active clergy of our acquaintance. The point Hill makes--requesting equal rights for the demented dying as for those who are in full possession of their mental faculties--is one that had never occurred to me before I read thisbook. I kept thinking (naturally) of my own mother, who for at least six months, and perhaps longer, didn't know anyone, and who seemed not to have anything at all to "get off her chest." Hill's entertaining (yes, it is) story of her wonderfully eccentric and charming parent made it clear that no matter what is happening, the person it's happening to is still somehow the same as in years past, at least enough so that it is cruel to ignore his or her need for expression. Whether there are old wounds to heal or bridges to mend is really secondary. Read this lovely essay and learn!

Absolutely sublime

This is the most moving memoir I have ever read. The intimacy Sheridan Hill shares with her readers and close attention to details is breath taking. I could not put it down. Astonishing and simply beautiful.

This is a must read for the hospice community and the families they serve.

My Name As A Prayer
I could not put this book down, so real, taking us to that uncharted territory, the death of our mother.How do we stay present, how do we understand our relationship, how do we face death and find life?
Sheridan Hill tells her story with such detail and honesty.I am no longer afraid of death, for my parents or myself after reading this book.

A MUST READ for anyone with an elderly parent or friend


I'm one of the "baby boom" generation, we who once shouted "never trust anyone over twenty-five!"And now we are in our forties, fifties, and sixties, often facing alone the crisis of the death of a parent or loved one. Our culture has ill prepared us for this passage, a society that dwells on youth and so carefully hides away death. I lost both of my parents several years back and only wish I had first read Ms. Hill's book, it would have served as a guide, and reaffirmed as well the rightness of decisions I made for the sake of my mother and father. It is not a book about death, it is a book about living and sharing to the fullest one's final journey with a parent.

I will freely admit I wept repeatedly as I read Ms. Hill's beautifully crafted tome which honors and celebrates her mother's final months.Reading it made me realize that so much of what I experienced was valid, that I was not alone in my feelings and gave me new and hopeful insights into my own life and the spiritual journey of my mother and father.

If you just read these reviews and do not buy the book, please heed her advice from this reviewer. Listen to your parents now, talk with them, share and recall all the moments, good and bad, and fight with all your passion to insure their time of passage is a time that is respectful of their dignity. Though I do hope you purchase this work even though the subject might be the last one on your mind at this moment. For someday it will occupy your life front and center and Ms. Hill is a guide you can turn to and trust.

charmingly told...


Refreshing for the heart -- as eternal family values wait til the end of one's life to come to light. I want my siblings to read this.How I wish I had had time with my own mother before her passing! ... Read more