Nonfiction account of his trip across the country with his dog. Iran were reading it when i was 15. It would probably i remember reading it when i was 15. I remember being kind of disappointed that on his great trek he did come through pittsburgh. The place closest he came was eerie erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men. Grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer h
Disappointed that on his great trek he didnt come through pittsburgh. The closest he came was erie. I have a vague recollection of reading it, but it made no impression on me. Steinbeck himself, i had to read of mice and men, grapes of wrath. I did not have to read his other major work, cannery row, in high school. But they say are springsteens life was changed when he read grapes of wrath. It gave him a social conscience and he wanted to do work on the working man. It had no effect on me. I was a goldwater boy. Hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in chicago. Almost the same age as i am. It set me off in a whole different direction than bruce springsteen. The book, travels with charley, when did the trip happen for him . On september 23, 1960, after a great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat ca
A great deal of preparation, he left his summer home in sag harbor, new york, on long island. The european end of long island. He and charlie set off in his camper van, a pickup truck with a camper almost like a sailboat cabin or a boat cabin on top, set into the bed of the pickup truck. We will show it in a minute. He took off on september 23 and headed north the message uses and visited his kid at school near deerfield. Then he made his way up to the top of maine. For some strange reason he thought he had to touch the top of maine first. He found out how big maine is. He worked his way he went to bangor and up to port kent, the top of maine, and drops down. How many days was he on the road . 75, maybe 77 at the most. No one knows for sure. He kept no notes. There were no records, no expense reports i can find or that anybody had. I know when he started Thomas September 23, 1960. I know he was he mailed something from tallahatchie, mississippi december 1960. He was pushing hard to get
Plus a thousand years. He had pled guilty to 937 counts of rape, kidnapping and murder. He will never be a free man. But the staggering moment came today when one of the three victims, michelle knight, spoke about the horror of the basement, the horror of the monster who kept her there and used her. I missed my son every day. I wondered if i was ever going to see him again. He was only 2 1 2 years old. When i was tooken. I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried about what would happen to me and the other girls every day. The days never got shorter. Days turned into nights, nights turned into days. Years turned into eternity. I knew nobody cared about me. He told me that my family didnt care, even on holidays. Christmas was the most traumatic day. I never got to spend it with my son. That was michelle knight. Her captor, who sat in chains throughout the proceeding, took issue, believe it or not, the prosecutors characterization of him. Lets watch him in action. I am not trying to
Our presidency has been debased by a figure who seemingly has a bottomless appetite for destruction and division, and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works. And our article i branch of government, the congress, thats me, is utterly supine. In the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the white house daily. Now, you might reasonably ask, wheres the good news in that . Well, simply put, we may have hit boston. This is it, if youve been wondering what the bottom looks like. This is what it look likes when you stress test all of the institutions that undergird our constitutional democracy at the same time. How did we arrive at such a moment of great peril wherein the president of the United States publicly threatens on fox friends, historians will note, to interfere in the administration of justice and seems to think that the office confers on him the ability to decide who and what gets investigated and who and what does not. And just this week, the president , o