and i went to cover the fate of this giant peace sculpture by the late editorial car couldn'tist, paul conrad, and it was weird to me this editorial cartoonist made the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud out of chain link and it was in trouble. this city was going to knock it down because they didn't have the now restore it, and i said beneath is with my microphone, who built this in the first place? why don't you just go to her? and jerry rubin, the paste activist, says we can't talk about. it was an anonymous gift but it was joan kroc who gave the gift. and he thought anybody who was in public radio would know and exalt kroc because she gave that massive gift when she died in 2003. and i thought, wow, want to read a book about this joan kroc. a peace activist who funded a sculpture nowhere near where she lived and gave all this now npr. what else is there about her? i started searching and i could find some obituaries but couldn't find a biography, so couldn't find a biography, so dumbly, stupidly, i appointed myself the person would do that and i found out quickly why one had never been written.