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Philip Greenspan was born in 1926 and was a goody-good boy at home, a dedicated student at school, an oddball at sports, a sad-sack in the army, and a workaholic at the office. A US Army veteran (World War II), Greenspan graduated from Brooklyn Law School, became a member of the New York bar, went into private law practice, and worked in the motion picture industry as well as distribution, exhibition and data processing industry. He retired in 1995. Since then, knowing old geezers are granted greater tolerance for irrational behavior, to his great delight, he became an eccentric, an iconoclast and a curmudgeon, as well as an ardent peace & justice activist. He heartily recommended eccentricity, 'iconoclasticity' and 'curmudgeonicity' for happy and healthy living.

Phil passed away on February 20, 2008, from cancer that spread to his bones and took his life in just about four weeks. Please read Jan Baughman's words about Phil, and Swans publisher's tribute to this exceptional man.

He was a bedrock of Swans from the day of his very first column in June 2001 to his last on January 14, 2008, which was fittingly entitled "The Secret Ingredient Of Activism: Mutual Support." May his 129 columns, essays, and rants listed below with a short description for each be a living memory to the extraordinary human being Philip Greenspan was.


A Loving And Magnificent Human Being Philip Greenspan (1926-2008) by Gilles d'Aymery	A Word About Philip Greenspan by Jan Baughman
From Andrew Courtney
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