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    Was There A Best Time To Be Alive?
    In the beginning, life was perfect. That, at least, was what our ancient antecedents believed. In c700 BC, mirroring the biblical Eden, the Greek poet Hesiod told how people “lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote from toil and grief ”. Some
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    The Classic Book
    It was my mother who first introduced me to this book. She was moved by the moment at which Carolyn Steedman discovers that her birth certificate erroneously records her parents as married. As a family with its share of historical illegitimacy and wr
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    Franklin D Roosevelt
    ■ 1933–45 ■ DEMOCRAT In guiding the US through the Great Depression and Second World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, or FDR as he was known, transformed the presidency, hitherto a relatively small institution, into the modern office that is the fount of n

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