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America’s Fabian revolution: Prelude to a Second American Revolution

Posted on June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 by Bookworm

We are in the 7th decade of a slo-mo socialist revolution in America, but there are signs it will be followed by a successful Second American Revolution. One of my favorite books is Daddy-Long-Legs, an epistolary novel that Jean Webster wrote in 1912. The letter writer is Judy Abbott, a

Ulysses S. Grant: What makes a consequential president?

Posted on December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 by Bookworm

Fifty years of school histories have lied about Ulysses S. Grant, who was a gifted man and consequential president. Not being a career politician helped. I’m reading Ron Chernow’s Grant. As I only started the book this morning, and have been reading in tiny bits and bytes, I’m only 3%

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Ulysses S. Grant: What makes a consequential president?

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