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(STACKER) – Education has always been a cornerstone of the American experience. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin stressed the importance of having a place to teach America’s youth in 1749. Franklin famously said, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Even before then, the colonists knew education was the key to furthering the developing nation the first […] | Local News from KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jonathan Coe’s finest fiction consists of riotous comedies or scalpel-sharp satires about British lives and the state of the nation. The Birmingham-born writer’s 1994 breakthrough novel, The Winshaw Legacy, set during the Thatcher era, charted the lurid excesses and the rapacious exploits of an upper-class family “the meanest, greediest, cruelest bunch of back-stabbing bastards who ever crawled across the face of the earth.” His 2013 thriller-farce, Expo 58, explored national identity in the postwar years through characters caught up in “a frenzy of head-scratching and soul-searching around that maddening, elusive topic of ‘Britishness.’”