Monthly Archives: October 2008

Towers of Gold

October 23, 2008
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I can’t imagine a time in recent memory when Frances Dinkelspiel’s forthcoming book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, has been more relevant. I’ll post more about this book next month, but for the moment, read what Dinkelspiel had to say about it in a newsletter today: For the past eight years I have been working on a biography of my great great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, one of the most influential financiers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hellman started the first successful bank in Los Angeles, went on to head...

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The Fonze says, “I was wrong”

October 23, 2008
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Today at Foothill College

October 22, 2008
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I’ll be talking about THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW today at Foothill College in Los Altos. Details here. This event is free and open to the public. When: Noon Where: Campus Center Student Lounge Both books will be available for twenty percent off the cover price.

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Palin’s Biggest Blooper?

October 21, 2008
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Saying “I can see Russia from my house” as evidence of her foreign policy experience is Sarah Palin’s most talked-about blooper to date. She topped it yesterday with a television interview in Colorado, when, in response to a third-grader’s question about what the Vice President job entitles, she said, “hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.” Problem is, the VP is most definitely not...

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The Day I Became a Debutante

October 18, 2008
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I’m guest-blogging today over at The Debutante Ball. Subjects discussed: where stories begin and end, sisterhood, and why I really dig research. Please stop by and say hello!

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