Now And Then Again: The Way We Were And The Way We Are Second Edition

I owned a jewelry store in Pompton Lakes, NJ. I sent four page newsletters to my customers 3 times a year. The newsletters were an instant hit when I started them in 1997. I had written so much about just about everything, consumer and middle class issues, food, drink, money, economics, politics, and the lighter side of life, I reorganized everything into a new general interest book, with jewelry articles in one section. This is the second edition of that book with 192 more pages and 318 new articlesThere are 492 pages, 394 photos and illustrations and 1122 articles, each with a headline-like title, as well as 88 notes at the end of the book in the same format.There are many articles about the past which are eerily resonant today, hence the title. Examples are an 1899 prediction that the Chinese will start to mass produce goods for us at ruinous prices, the man who really sold snake oil . "Leak Through Economics" is from Bryan's Cross of Gold speech in 1869. The Great Recession happened before, in the year 33 in ancient Rome While in Rome, go down to Pompeii and read the Graffiti on the walls: "Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before!" .The book goes from A (Attention Winos) to Z (Zen and the Art of Canine Maintenance). Here is a sample of the diverse topics in the book: an elephant who didn't get a peanut because it was paid for with a lead slug flattening the offender with a stream of water, counterfeiters who printed money while in prison in 1899, a man who sat on an ostrich egg until it hatched, women riled up by a tax on corsets, airline barf bags with ads on them, and a 1927 robot who answered the phone and who, when asked his favorite book at a booksellers convention, replied "Is Sex Necessary?" by James Thurber. The article is accompanied by a wonderful photo of a woman hugging the protesting robot.

• | Author: Joseph Mirsky
• | Publisher: Joseph Mirsky
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 492 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0970007485
• | ISBN-13: 9780970007483