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Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.

The Right Said, [barack Obama] Is Lying, He's A Socialist Who Pals Around With Terrorists, He's A Secret Muslim And Blah Blah Blah. That Was Their Line. The Liberals All Said, He's Winking At Me, I Can Feel Him Winking In My Direction. He Wasn't Winking. He Said Exactly Who He Was And He's Lived That Out Perfectly.

Writing A Memoir Has A Particularly Excited Sense Of Narcissism.

That's Where We All Kind Of Were In The Mid-1960s. Students For A Democratic Society Grew From A Small Group Of Socialists At The University Of Michigan Into A National Organization, And In Many Ways, Its Growth Was Driven By The Vietnam War.

What Was On The Agenda Was School And Social Life And Those Kinds Of Things. So I Was The Middle Of Five Kids. So I Had The Great Advantage Of Being Able To Play Up To The Older Kids And Play Down To The Younger Kids And I Think That's Part Of What Propelled Me To Become A Teacher At Some Point In My Life. But It Was A Comfortable Childhood. It Was A Privileged Childhood.