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"In six days, the United States will, hopefully, be electing a new president, and, thinking about it, I found myself reliving the first presidential election that I am able to remember."

Alternate version of "My Career as a Lawyer"

"In 1933, I was five years old. My father had died in 1931, and my mother was finally able to come to grips with the fact that we should move from our four-room Beck Street apartment in the Bronx, to a smaller apartment that would cost less."

"I started writing this on August 28, 2005, the 42nd anniversary of the March on Washington."

"It was the fall of 1948, I was entering my senior year at City College, and the country was in turmoil, politically."

"Observing my son's recent struggle to decide between two job possibilities, which may well determine his future, brought back my struggle to choose between a career in education or trade unionism."

"As I put together 'my story' it occurred to me that it is like the resumes we prepared when looking for a job..."

"In 1952, I was working as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, ILGWU, which represented custom tailors and alterations workers in New York City."

"Over the years, I have written about various people I have known—friends, colleagues, etc. Each of us is unique, and I have tried to find and describe that uniqueness."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…