Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


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    Take the dust-jacket off this one–it’s a banger of a design– and slip it over a dystopian YA novel. Then this can read as fiction. Dip into the now uncovered over the nonfiction afterwards and you will be only more discouraged. Of all the post-COVID post-mortems of how the purportedly…

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