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Adam Smith’s America, [is a book that deals with] the reception of Adam Smith in America and how... [he] came to be weaponized as the person who believes the market is a god in America in the 1800s and 1900s, that I think is very, very much worth reading.

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Endorse: @lionel_trolling: "Garry Wills’ Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man might be the best book about American politics in the 20th century I’ve ever read..." https://t.co/i3v1OwDswY

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...level, Jaffa’s attempt to read the minds of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln—what thoughts lay behind the words they spoke. Or, perhaps, it is something else: it is Jaffa’s attempt to read the minds of what those who heard the words of Douglas and Lincoln, and took... 7/

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...+, of course: Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://t.co/elIctVrDr3> 7/END

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@punchingprof @DrRobThompson I am sorry. But this from MRO seems just bonkers to me: "Chapter 4, in part, focuses on the late 6th — and early 7th century Pope, Gregory the Great (p. 48) and explores how Christianity wasn’t (or isn’t) a monolith (50–53). The chapter then turns attention to Gregory’s... 1/

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&: ...References: Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan: Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success <https://t.co/KvatLwEhV4> Leah Boustan: Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets <https://t.co/0g4rdkpH8u>… 6/

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...built a utopia. That is in fact what they did tell us. Perhaps the third best-selling novel in the United States in the nineteenth century was Looking Backward, 2000–1887, by Edward Bellamy. Bellamy was a populist and—although he rejected the name—a... 388-slouching/

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Its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our experiment in self-government, the challenges encountered along the way, and the patterns that are most likely to be repeated in the future.

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...built a utopia. That is in fact what they did tell us. Perhaps the third best-selling novel in the United States in the nineteenth century was Looking Backward, 2000–1887, by Edward Bellamy. Bellamy was a populist and—although he rejected the name—a... 388-slouching/

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“The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order,” is a book I really wished that I would have had while writing the Neoliberal [of my book] turn chapter because it would have made it better and stronger and would have made me smarter.