Archive for Jim Russell
Book Review: Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992 • 407 pages • $22.95 I confess that my mind was too closed to political rhetoric, and my wallet too thinned by involuntary taxation to fork over nearly twenty-three dollars to a then-member of the wealthiest club in America—the U.S. Senate—for a book. My daughter, however, a recently crowned lawyer, purchased [...]
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