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Pythia Peay
Goodreads Author
Born
in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States
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Influences
Carl Jung, Freud, Tolstoy, Jane Smiley, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Tolkie
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Member Since
October 2013
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Mercury Retrograde
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2004
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3 editions
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American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
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2015
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3 editions
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America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives on American Politics and Culture
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2015
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Soul Sisters: The Five Sacred Qualities of a Woman's Soul
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2002
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American Icarus: A Memoir of Fanther and Country
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Honoring My World War II Veteran Father: More the Hero Than I Ever Knew
As the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II draws to a close, I think of my father often. Each interview with one of the war’s surviving veterans tugs at my heart—and my conscience. For like many in my Baby Boomer generation, I was late to arrive at an appreciation for my gruff-spoken, close-to-the-chest, Greatest Generation father’s military service. Maybe it was years of dealing wit
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“These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.”
― American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
― American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
“In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.”
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“A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.”
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“These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.”
― American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
― American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and Country
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”
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