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I just finished reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s
Democracy in America for the first time. I read it over the past two years or so in weekly lunch meetings with my friend Bruce Sanborn. Carleton College’s Professor Larry Cooper, also a friend, served as our preceptor. We used the terrific edition translated, edited, and introduced by Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop that is published by the University of Chicago Press.
Like almost everyone who has ever read the book, Bruce and I are in awe of Tocqueville. Like readers in every generation, I think it seems to have been written for ours. I recommend Paul Rahe’s
Kathleen Gallagher: Lawmakers rushing to cut jobless benefits are missing the point. The state needs needs to focus on building a future proof, higher-tech, higher-wage economy.
A new history of railroad women and new biographies of John Wesley Hardin, Texas Jack, military wives in Arizona, plus an introspective look at the tragedy of Indian massacres.
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