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I’m absolutely confident that if all of you decide to take up this cause, that if you have made a determination that you are tired of the America that has been because you imagine the America that is laid out before us; and if you’are willing to put your shoulder to the wheel of history [...]
A life of King Solomon, written by his court historian! Such, apparently, were the contents of an old Hebrew manuscript, handed on to Professor Solomon by an elderly relative.
Its brittle pages were filled with the story of the king: his adulterous father (King David), his youth, his rivals for the throne, [...]
Is there still a Coney Island? Once renowned as a funspot, Coney Island has been largely forgotten. Does it still exist? What has survived of the place? And what was it like? In this book CONEY ISLAND, Professor Solomon takes us there to find out.
Roaming about, he interviews old-timerssearches for antiquitiesexplores [...]
Across the sea is the land of Japan. With its ancient shrines, sumo wrestlers, Zen masters, capsule hotels, Laughing Festival, fortunetelling birds, haiku masters, phantom foxes, mania for bathing, musical crickets, tea masters, Living National Treasures, Moon Viewing Night, bowing etiquette, Festival of the Dead, dream-eating Baku, samurai films, Fuji [...]