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Past and Present

Gerard DeGroot

Riffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.

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  • Gerard DeGroot

    Historian, journalist, and crazy dog lover. Once wrote a lot of books, now a book critic for The Times. In my other life I'll turn my hand to almost anything. People tell me that I'm a great cook. Friends call me Jerry.

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