Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
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About P.D. James
P.D. James was a 20th-century English crime writer. Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, known professionally as P. D. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation