Douglass North

Name: Paddling Washington
ISBN: 9781594852619

Economist

1920-11-05

Books by Douglass North

Paddling Washington

Flatwater and Whitewater Routes in Washington State and the Inland Northwest
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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
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I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
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