The Human Stain by Philip Roth Yet not even Bashir's degree

Yet not even Bashir's degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume her homeland

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but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics

The Human Stain by Philip Roth Yet not even Bashir's degreeIt is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children,