"How does a civilized person make any sense of all this?" The question from Joshua, revisiting Nazi Germany as an interrogator of German war prisoners, begs an answer. For the author and, indeed, for all humanity, it is a question that is hard to answer without implicating the entire human race. A holocaust parable of a young woman reporter, Ginger Lee, on a thirty year search for justice, across the white bridge where a killer proves to be elusive as an American ideal.
There was an evil about, skirting like a stone across the ocean that nobody could foresee because, well before Mengele came for their eyes, America already had gone blind.
A Jewish Book Council, Book-of-Note author, Mr.Rubenstein's first novel was included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library. Companion pieces: Ghost Runners, historical fiction about two Jewish runners not allowed to compete in the 1936 Olympics, and The White Bridge, a parody about the transformation of a young woman in a time of eugenics, baby farms, Hitler, the Klan, and the culture of lynching.
Robert continues his inquiry to understand the hatred, the horror, and the heroics that were needed to defeat fascism here and abroad; he teaches advanced topics in psychology: the psychology of racism, at a local university system. A former special educator in the New York Public Schools, Rob raised two children as a single parent; still loves the southwest, especially Navajo country, and gets his feet wet on the Coney Island shore.
You may not agree with the politics of The White Bridge, but it is one heck of a fun ride. Read more here: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Rubenstein/e/B0045LM6LG/ref=sr_tc_ep?qid=1332020793
So how are your NCAA brackets doing? I bet a lot of people had Duke and Missouri going a long way. Syracuse has surprised me, winning easily today to reach the sweet 16, despite the ineligibility of one of its starters, Fab Melo.
I knew the floating bookshop would have a good day when a Russian couple stopped me as I was carrying the crates along Bay Parkway. They purchased two books in their native language before I had even set up. Jack, employee of Chase, bought six thrillers. A woman in a white kerchief - I'm not sure if it was a burqa - not only bought three books, she returned minutes later with a donation of seven. Another woman bought the vampire and werewolf novels I had. Everyone bought in bulk today. I also lucked out when the woman I'd told that Killing would be available this weekend didn't show.
Erin Go Bragh to our Irish neighbors.
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