The P-I's D. Parvaz will head to Harvard
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorialist, pop culture writer, and columnist D. Parvaz has been named a Nieman Fellow and will head off to Harvard University for a year of studying, it was announced Friday, May 16. The Niemans are prestigious fellowships offered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
D. — or Dorothy — is one of my radio mates on KUOW-FM's Weekday news-in-review roundtable with Steve Scher. D. says she'll be studying the history of the American revolution and the origins of constitutional law while living in Cambridge. She'll be heading back East in August.
D. has occupied the seat at the media roundtable previously held by the P-I's Susan Paynter, who left the show after she retired. No replacement has been picked yet, but D. will be missed. I am hoping that when she figures out "the moral and social underpinnings that created the country's current political climate," she'll let us all in on the secret. Anyway, congratulations D.
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Posted Wed, May 21, 10:36 a.m.
Our revolution's history -- key book: I wish D. Parvaz well in her studies.
I hope she has time on the banks of the Charles River to read a key book on the USA's founding revolution that has captured my current attention, The Unknown American Revolution by Gary B. Nash, subtitled The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. Viking, 2005
As a book jacket review puts it, "reveals the churning cauldron of political and social discontents -- white, red, and black, rich and poor, male and female -- that was eighteenth-century North America."
Reading this would add to the depth of any editorialist's writing.