Daily Archives: February 14, 2013

Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician 22

I finished Stephen Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician, which was the first volume of a three-volume series about the life of Richard Nixon. In my latest reading, Ambrose talks about Nixon’s 1962 race for Governor of California against … Continue reading

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Challenges to Elisha ben Abuyah’s Faith

I started Milton Steinberg’s As a Driven Leaf.  The book is a fictional story about how the first-second century C.E. Jewish figure Elisha ben Abuyah became an apostate from Judaism.  See here to read my blog post about Elisha ben … Continue reading

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