A View From Above" has characters from WW II, the Roosevelts, the Churchills, Pamela Harriman and Sigmund Freud who argue about the barriers and resistances to achieving an enduring peace and how they might have been overcome. "A Beautiful Mess" illustrates the ways in which a professor seeks to overcome racism, sexism and homophobia in his university class and his parallel struggle to achieve a more egalitarian relationship in his marriage