"Conversations with My Grandchildren: Truths and Nothing But the Truth" tells the story of the rapid mental and physical deterioration of the author's 90 year old mother, a first generation American Jew brought up in a world of discrimination and hope, who, beginning with her response to an ad seeking "retread housewives" went on to author social studies textbooks for elementary and middle school children, which led to her never-ending quest to discern...