Past and Present
Gerard DeGrootRiffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.
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The Smiling Psychopath
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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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