Do not miss the recently released recordings of Jacqueline Kennedy's 1964 conversations with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. What a wonderful way to appreciate this remarkable woman's role in modern history and her take on the world from her perch in the White House. Jacqueline Kennedy's notable intelligence, wit and thoughtfulness emanate from this publication. It also gives such a strong sense of the constraints on women in those times, something of which we would all do well to remind ourselves. Kudos to Caroline Kennedy and her family for having the courage to release these until now vaulted valuables. What a thought provoking backdrop for pondering the mess we're in today. Where has our civic pride gone? Our sense of social justice? Our humanity? Difficult times ask much of us. We need to step up. People before us worked to hard for us to sit back. We need to step up.
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