[Fiji Hill]

In the 1990’s, I was asked to write short biographies on both Nelson and Winnie Mandela for a textbook series for young people. They paid me for both, but only published the one on Nelson. My article on Winnie almost certainly didn’t pass muster because it was too unflattering, but that’s the way it had to be if I were to tell her true story.

Earlier, this company had paid me for an article on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Soviet atom spies, but when the book was published, it contained a different article—not nearly as well-researched as mine—which portrayed them as victims of “McCarthyism.”

[jboot]

When I was in school clar back in the seventies the Rosenbergs were already saints. I grew up within a short walk from the Rosenberg pumpkin patch and my teachers gushed praise and worship over their "local heroes" as if they were Jesus and Mary His Mother.

These same sh*twit teachers used to protest against nuclear arms, too. The irony was intense.