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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. I've had the great

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honor of meeting and interviewing hundreds,
if not thousands, of authors. One

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of my favorite guests over the years, and I interviewed him many times for

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many books, was Norman Finkelstein,
a resident of Framingham who passed away this

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week. Norman was a school librarian
for the Brookline Public Schools and taught history

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for many many years at Hebrew College. He won great acclaim over the years

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for over twenty books geared to the
younger readers in his audience, books that

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people of any age could appreciate.
Norman loved history, he loved biography.

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Was the winner of two National Jewish
Book Awards and the Golden Kite Honor Book

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Award for nonfiction. His works include
The Shelter and the Fence. When nine

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hundred and eighty two Holocaust refugees found
safe haven in America, Schools of Hope,

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How Julius Rosenwald helped change African American
education, The Capture of Black Bart,

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Gentleman Bandit of the Old West,
thirteen Days, ninety miles, The

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Cuban Missile Crisis, Emperor General A
Bio of Douglas MacArthur, and the list

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goes on and on. Norman Finkelstein
will be missed, but he's left us

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a legacy of great writing. I'm
Jordan, and that's the Book Club.

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