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Charles Reich • The Greening of America
“Joe the Jew.”
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
bastards.”) The paralyzed man decided to go with the ruling power. I’ve noticed more than a few people who pick Mitch McConnell over Jesus.
Anne Lamott • Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
thunder”: Pennsylvania announced 44 votes for Lincoln, boosting his total to 181, only 3½ votes behind Seward’s new total of 1841/2.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
EXTENDING THE FOUNDING
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In the notes he made for a speech in the Constitutional Convention, James Madison wrote of the “real or supposed difference of interests” between “the rich and poor”—“those who will labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings”—and of the fact that over the ages to come the latter would com
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Denmark Vesey, one of the South Carolina’s most significant enslaved insurrectionists, was once a member of Mother Emanuel. It had been founded in 1816. City leaders forced them to close their doors in 1818. Too much freedom happened there. And after Vesey’s revolt, the building was burned to the ground in 1822, only to be rebuilt. The parishioners
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Morgan’s famous testimony to Congress that character came before money or property.