Private Thoughts

One of America's most admired television newsmen gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the 20th century. Here is the voice we know from Nightline - intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned - reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives. Hear an interview with Ted Koppel on The Connection.

A Quiet Murmuration by Peter Deeley is a book of musings about our strange and changing life in this new century, offered from the point of view of a father, brother, son, closet philosopher, and CrossFit athlete. From a beach in Thailand or his own porch, he grapples with those nagging life questions we all have, but don’t always admit to. A Quiet Murmuration delves into the depths with humor, honesty and real mercy for the human race. Peter Deeley never spares himself but shares generously with his listeners.

"Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.