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Author: David Rothman

David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org. He is also author of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. Other books are The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the creation of a national digital library endowment.
December 20, 2008 Politicians

Two Chicagoans: President Bullard vis-a-vis Obama

Both are self-made men from Chicago—intellectual politicians with law degrees. And like me, both are on the liberal side. No

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December 12, 2008 GSA

GSA: A checkered past

A variant of a Shakespearian quote shows up on the base of a statue outside the National Archives, once within

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December 7, 2008 Uncategorized

David Rothman’s No Frills Home Page (Archived Item)

DAVID ROTHMAN’S NO-FRILLS HOME PAGE TeleRead Home Page  | Arthur C. Clarke Chapter from The Silicon Jungle Harry Rothman Eulogy Thanks for

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December 3, 2008 Jewish topics

Scandals as a Northern Virginia Jewish novel

Jonathan Stone as an Afro-American? Because Jewish protagonists are such old hat? So suggested a buddy of mine—not an anti-semite

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November 29, 2008 The Solomon Scandals

Heart troubles: Fact-checking in the cardiac ICU, post-bypass

Cardiac worries arise in several places in The Solomon Scandals. My father’s heart attack was one of the defining moments

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November 29, 2008 Uncategorized

The ACTUAL Telegram?

A friend and I had just seen a movie with a soft-spoken and obscenity-free editor, a balding Boy Scout of

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November 29, 2008 Charles Smith

Solomon for real?

Sy Solomon, the real estate millionaire in The Solomon Scandals, never existed. Like many of the characters in my novel,

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November 29, 2008 Sen. Ribicoff

Sen. Ribicoff’s spooky investment

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, the late Connecticut senator who also served in President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet, secretly held a $20,000

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November 29, 2008 The Solomon Scandals

Scandals’ origins

Blame The Solomon Scandals on my lack of ESP. Oh, to have read the minds of the people whose lives

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