Current Reading

This blog is primarily for me to blog my responses to books that I'm reading. Sometimes I blog about other stuff too, though.

Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond.

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Final quote from Chapter 6 of Hofstadter

On page 159, Hofstadter quotes a description of the 1824 election as a contest between:
John Quincy Adams who can write
And Andrew Jackson who can fight.
That was apparently intended as an argument for Jackson. Nice to know that Americans have always been this dumb.

1 comment:

Philip Ebersole said...

Very interesting. Thank you for this.