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Mary Gordon: Shadow Man
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The Mary Gordon electric river boat is the oldest electrically powered craft still in existence. Having been saved many times from destruction, she is now being restored, to carry passengers on Britain's oldest canal, the Fossdyke, in Lincoln.
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For the first two years of college, Mary continued to live at home and commuted into Manhattan every day. She worked a series of secretarial jobs in order to pay her way through Barnard, and babysat for the children of her mentor, Professor Janice Thaddeus of the English Department. Under Prof. Thaddeus’ wing, Mary overcame the deficiencies of her pre-college education and came to accept that Leonard Cohen was not quite as good as Yeats. Gordon became involved in the feminist and anti-war movements of the late sixties, and has continued to contribute to progressive causes throughout her life. Within Barnard’s walls, though, life was absolute bliss in the years of Sargeant Pepper and The Supremes. Gordon never forgot her gratitude to the institution that had given her the intellectual and artistic experience she had always craved.
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In 2006 Ms. Gordon is collaborating with the World Bank Institute of the World Bank in Paris and is a contributing member of the World Health Organization. The Nelson Mandela Children’s Foundation in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) brought her to South Africa to share her parenting expertise. Ms. Gordon served as a panel member on the U.S. Government’s Early Childhood Development Research Agenda Setting Committee and was a member of the groundbreaking “Ontario Early Years Study”, chaired by Dr. Fraser Mustard and the Honorable Margaret McCain. Mary Gordon is a panel member of Best Start, Ontario’s comprehensive strategy for healthy development and wellbeing to help all of Ontario’s young children be successful in school and in life.
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Gordon ... produced many works of nonfiction, some of which were published as books. Good Boys and Dead Girls, a collection of essays, had been published in 1991, and Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identity was published in 2003. When Penguin Books approached Gordon to contribute a popular biography to their Lives series, she chose to write on Joan of Arc. Although she had no formal background as a historian, the book was such a success that it won her the O.B. Hardison award for the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies.
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In September of 2006, Ms. Gordon participated in the Vancouver Dialogues with his Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Roots of Empathy will become part of the Dalai Lama’s Peace and Education Centre to be based in Vancouver, Canada. In her dialogue with the Dalai Lama, His Holiness offered congratulations and appreciation to Ms. Gordon for her work. The Nelson Mandela Children's Foundation brought her to South Africa to share her parenting expertise. She was a member of the groundbreaking "Ontario Early Years Study" chaired by Dr. Fraser Mustard and the Honourable Margaret McCain.
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The Shadow Man. Gordon describes her search to find out more about her father, who had died when she was seven years old. The deceit uncovered by this Catholic writer includes the fact that her anti-Semitic father was himself Jewish. This discovery forces Gordon to question her own identity in a memoir that reviewer William H. Pritchard calls "a passionate and extravagant account."
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