Dan Rodricks: Life lessons from Gene Oishi and hope for a ‘do better’ America

Among the last things Gene Oishi wrote, the preface to the new edition of his 1988 memoir refers to “the resurgence of racial prejudices and animosities in the United States.” But then it veers away from that troubling subject and resists reference to Donald Trump. “My memoir,” Oishi wrote in March, “is not about the state of our country, but about how I view my place in it.”