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A Child’s Front-Row Seat to History and the Cold War

Among the array of photographs in Grace Kennan Warnecke’s new memoir is a picture of her standing with Ted Kennedy and his family in Leonid Brezhnev’s office. "The trip was highly unusual – and I knew it at the time," recalls Warnecke. Warnecke calling something unusual? How unusual, given a…
BookTrib
April 11, 2018
Children's Books

A Feminist Leader A Century Ahead of Her Time

As Jeannette Rankin was becoming one of the leading suffrage voices in America in the early 1900s, she would utter those words to children in one of the 25 speeches she was said to give over a 25-day period. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916.…
Jim Alkon
March 12, 2019