Edward Lotterman “Why did he do such a stupid thing?” That was the question economist John Maynard Keynes asked in 1925 after Winston Churchill, then Secretary of the Exchequer, Britain’s treasury, decreed returning the pound sterling to its pre-WWI value … Continued
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It was the late 1990s, and Kate DiCamillo was discouraged about ever having a writing career. Working as a “book picker” fulfilling orders at the Bookmen distribution company in Minneapolis, she had accumulated more than 450 rejections for her short … Continued