David Moats
CommentatorDavid Moats is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
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The earth was shaking, and I was crouching under a desk on the third floor of a building in San Francisco, when I gained some insight into the way my mind鈥�
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Most people probably don鈥檛 remember George Lincoln Rockwell, who after World War II was the founder of the American Nazi Party. He used to strut and preen鈥�
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During the recent election campaign I got tired of hearing about what white American males believed, what African-Americans believed, and Latinos and鈥�
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My mind has been going back to the year 1968 and the despair I felt after the assassination of Robert Kennedy.That event came as something of a last鈥�
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If you鈥檝e read 鈥淭he Grapes of Wrath,鈥� you know it鈥檚 about the epic migration in the 1930s from the Dust Bowl to California.Hundreds of thousands of poor鈥�
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My most memorable high school teacher, Mr. Siringer, taught English wearing sunglasses to conceal an eye twitch. He brought a phonograph into the鈥�
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When my grandfather retired from the Forest Service in the 1940s, his colleagues gave him a book - Audubon鈥檚 鈥淏irds of America鈥� - which is now on my鈥�
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I was not a student radical in the 1960s, but I saw some radical stuff. I saw demonstrators throwing rocks through windows in downtown Berkeley and police鈥�
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Lost: Baseball glove, perfectly oiled and broken in, Rawlings, tan leather, perfect pocket. Belongs to 12-year-old boy, who is distraught at the theft.鈥� -
An unusual artifact of my family鈥檚 past has come into my possession. It's an elaborate decorative belt buckle engraved with the name of my grandfather.鈥�
