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  • “Puritan Remnants,” an excerpt from Time’s Up! A Memoir of the American Century by Robert Cabot

    “Puritan Remnants,” an excerpt from Time’s Up! A Memoir of the American Century by Robert Cabot

    Blending history, essay, travelogue, and autobiography, Time’s Up! is a personal and political saga: luminous, probing, and absorbing. At constant odds with his Boston Brahmin lineage and upbringing, Robert Cabot confronts white privilege, rejects the conventional trappings of wealth and fame, and critiques our American heritage of colonialism, imperialist yearnings, and penchant for perpetual war. In alternating…