Doctorow, Heal Thyself

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Is there a Doctorow in the Grave?

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Welcome to Hard Times

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What a Dragtime

(Props to Bill)

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Tagtime

(Merit for Mark)

El Doctorow, noted Spanish folk hero who defeated the Moors… oops, I have just been informed… E. L. Doctorow, author of historical fiction, has died at the age of 84. Among his best known works are Ragtime, which was turned into James Cagney’s final film, and Billy Bathgate, which should have been Loren Dean’s, as well as The Book of Daniel, a fictionalized account of Uncle Julius and Aunt Ethel’s trumped up charges, trial and execution for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.