Reflections on a Teapot
The Personal History of a Time
Published on 8. May 2018
234 pages
978-1-945814-23-5 (ISBN)
Description
"We are the generation...to whom nothing much ever happened, who seemed to get skipped over by the major collective experiences of the twentieth century." This from Ronald Sanders in his introduction to this memoir written in his forties when wondering what somebody only in his forties might have to say about his life that would interest people. And what Sanders came up with is that struggles with life's problems, even during times of uneventfulness, maybe even especially during times of uneventfulness, can still be epic.
This is a great memoir of a young Ronald Sanders, born of a Liverpool musician father and a Brooklyn Jewish mother and his youth in New York.
This is a great memoir of a young Ronald Sanders, born of a Liverpool musician father and a Brooklyn Jewish mother and his youth in New York.
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Person
Ronald Sanders was an American journalist and writer--publishing 10 works of non-fiction to high regard. From 1966-1975 he was on the staff of Midstream magazine, and from 1973-1975 was its editor-in-chief. He was the first recipient of the B'Nai B'Rith Book Award for his The Downtown Jews.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Teapot Song
- Chapter 2 Ferdinand the Bull, and Other Characters
- Chapter 3 An Essay in Geography
- Chapter 4 Pop-guns
- or, World War II at the Movies
- Chapter 5 Homer in Brooklyn
- Chapter 6 Music, Art, and Other Subjects
- Chapter 7 Politics in Flatbush
- Chapter 8 The Return to the Land
- Chapter 9 Learning to Read
- Chapter 10 More Music
- or, The Joys and Sorrows of a Young Highbrow
- Chapter 11 The Fifties Begin
- Chapter 12 The Beginning of the End of Ideology
- Chapter 13 The Beginning of the End of Ideology-Continued
- Chapter 14 One Version of Pastoral
- Chapter 15 Bontsha in the Army
- Chapter 16 Catching Up
- Chapter 17 Learning Yiddish
- Chapter 18 Reflections on a Teapot
