When I first encountered the Dictionary of American Biography it was routinely known as the DAB and sarcastically as Dead American Boys. We had awakened to new sensibilities, as the sarcasm implied in ridiculing the catalog of the white men supposedly responsible for creating and doing everything.
Women and minorities were largely overlooked. But the living boys are worse than the dead ones. So much for progress. Republicans have us living in a death camp. White boys are leading us to ruin. They aren't dead but they are deadly. Corpses become them. Welcome to the mausoleum.
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