2012 May 23 |
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Best seller author and prominent conservative David Horowitz wrote a must read reflection on his latest book, “A Cracking of the Heart,” for PowerLine. In this book, Horowitz looks back at the life his daughter Sarah led, until death took her. She was 44 years when she died.

Excerpt:

I have had the sad task of writing a just-published book about my daughter Sarah who died at the age of 44 from complications related to a birth condition. No parent should have to bury his child, and the book I have written, which is called A Cracking of the Heart, is naturally about grief and loss, which is something that none of us can escape. But it is also about my remarkable child who came into this world with handicaps that would have defeated most of us but managed to make her short life a blessing to others.MORE

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The Washington Post:

Chiang Kai-shek ranks as one of the most despised leaders of the 20th century. Famously derided as “Peanut” and “General Cash-My-Check,” the leader of China’s Nationalist government bedeviled the Allied war effort in World War II with his lackluster defense of his country.MORE

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