“Because what’s history?” he asked rhetorically when he was in his expansive dinnertime instructional mode. “History is everything that happens every… - Philip Roth

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“Because what’s history?” he asked rhetorically when he was in his expansive dinnertime instructional mode. “History is everything that happens everywhere. Even here in Newark. Even here on Summit Avenue. Even what happens in his house to an ordinary man—that’ll be history too someday.”