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A young man barely starting out in life is faced with a choice. Marry the beguiling young widow he has just met in an Israeli kibbutz and become the father of her three children or return single to his empty life as a rabbinical student studying to be a Reform rabbi. Although doubting the existence of God, he believes that God is guiding him and he marries the young woman. Thus begins his trip down the road less traveled that will take him back to the States where he experiences the psychedelic 60s, back to Israel where he covers a very hot war while working for NBC television and on to Belize where he becomes a gentleman planter and developer of thousands of acres of bananas and citrus, only to return once again to the States where he confronts a decision that will change his life forever.
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From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for eco...