Category: Washington
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Numb
Down at the USA Jeans Factory today we produced a memo asking for reinstatement to the work we’re professionally trained to do while slogging over the work of individuals fired from doing the jobs they knew so well. I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone.
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Hope Amid Distress
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Throughout his tidy narrative Tidwell grapples with the most universally disheartening issue of our day without sending the reader into despair. Rather than spread the disease of hopelessness, we hear voices of reason who’ve dedicated their lives to climate action, in their own backyards and across the neighborhood.
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Notes from the Board
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Today I fulfilled a long-held aspiration, joining the editorial board of the Foreign Service Journal. For nearly a quarter century this storied publication has followed me around the world from Jeddah to Nicaragua and Mexico City to Mumbai.
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Fooling around with cover art
This is not my first time designing a jacket. That turned out disastrously…
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Publication Announcement
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From the first generation of Peace Corps Volunteers emerged 50 future ambassadors, protagonists in some of our nation’s most dramatic events over the last 65 years.
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You Can Thank Me Later
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I almost forgot I’d started a podcast called Backstory, inspired by heavy traffic to a book review published in 2015. At the time I recorded two more reviews and never got around to sharing. Here’s my new audio, with an updated show name: Backstory with Ben East.
Ben East Books 