Bill Shirer remembered

Book Review: The Long Night - WSJ.com: "Shirer would achieve fame all over the English-speaking world as a historian of the Third Reich, but he was at his best as a reporter. His greatest talent lay, as Mr. Wick shows, in simply being there when big things happened."

And I remember Bill too

Frequent luncheon conversations in our Berkshire County haunts

He had retired to the Pelton house in Lenox

I was in Stockbridge

We had a push pull relationship as he was always at me to work harder

I was always bobbing and weaving

It was copacetic

It was what it was

What we did share mainly was a hatred of totalitarianism

And a sense of its ominous presence even in the late 1960s as it was attaining its shape and style

In these parts

This biography looks to be a good work if I may use that term

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