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Thomas N. Bethell

Thomas N. Bethell is a Washington, D.C., writer and editor. Part One of "Roosevelt Redux" appeared in the Spring 2005 issue.

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Roosevelt Redux

Robert M. Ball and the battle for Social Security

by Thomas N. Bethell | Tuesday, March 01, 2005
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Roosevelt Redux: Part Two

Robert M. Ball and the battle for Social Security

by Thomas N. Bethell | Wednesday, June 01, 2005

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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