by Tom DeWolf | May 28, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege
One of the pleasures of traveling about the United States to speak with people about Inheriting the Trade is, well, the people. On the one hand I’ve met several new relatives that I’ve never heard of before (4th, 6th, 9th cousins and the list goes on). On...
by Tom DeWolf | May 22, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
The interview that Tom DeWolf and Katrina Browne recorded for the book segment of The Early Show on CBS has now been scheduled to run on June 19. Read all about it at my cousin James DeWolf Perry’s blog: Impertinent Questions.
by Tom DeWolf | May 20, 2008 | Books, Reviews
Mark Twain defined a classic as a book “which people praise and don’t read.” I just finished the Greg Mortenson/David Oliver Relin classic Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time. I’m sure most...
by Tom DeWolf | May 3, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
My friend Brad works in a library in Oregon. In placing the audio version of Inheriting The Trade into the catalogue system they use–not the only library catalogue system in the world, he told me, but it is the largest–he learned that: 440 libraries around...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 18, 2008 | Books, Reviews
I’ve been thinking a lot about baseball this week. It was 61 years ago on April 15, 1947 that Jackie Robinson played his first baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the color barrier was breached in our national pastime. I grew up near Los Angeles. My...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 1, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Traces of the Trade
Thanks to Caroline Webb, who added a comment to the end of my last post–Preview of Traces of the Trade at P.O.V. blog–asking “Where is the blog entry re: To the Best Of Our Knowledge radio program? I heard it last night on KQED in the Bay Area,...
