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Dew, Robb Forman. Being Polite to Hitler. Little, Brown. Jan. 2011. c.304p. ISBN 9780316889506. $24.99. F
In her third book centered on Agnes Scofield of Washburn, OH, following 2001's The Evidence Against Her and 2005's The Truth of the Matter, Dew brings her readers into post-World War II small-town America via the lives of Agnes and the friends and family who look to her to anchor their own unsettled lives. It is now 1953, and Agnes, widowed and in her early fifties, has had it with teaching third graders. Her offspring (including a much younger brother raised as her son) and their children are trying to find their way in a country on the verge of unprecedented change. The …