The Washington Post, January 2nd, 1994
THE BOOK OF VIRTUES: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories Edited, with commentary, by William J. Bennett Simon & Schuster. 831 pp. $27.50 THE FIRST HEROES and heroines I encountered emerged from a row of blue, clothbound books on a small-town library shelf in the 1950s. I forget the title of the series but I will never forget the soft feel of those books, their musty smell or most of all, their real-life characters who made me believe that someday I would grow up and leave my town to pursue some greater destiny. By day I read the stories and at night I dreamed of dressing wounded soldiers as Clar...
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