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The first book I‘ve finished in two weeks! I have had almost no time to read recently, and every time I try somebody needs something that only I can manage. Ugh!

This book is fantastic. If you‘ve ever looked around at the current state of US politics and wondered how the hell we ended up here, read this book. Some of it is also in Richardson‘s Letters from an American posts, but she does a great job of weaving the threads together. Just read it!

This really speaks to me. I never read these books as a kid, but my MIL loves them and gave me the set early in my marriage. I tried the first book and quit at the inflated pig bladder. I tried them again with kiddo and just can‘t get over how shiftless Pa is, how awful his decision-making and family management are. I‘ve never understood the appeal, other than pure nostalgia.

I‘m finally carving out time to read again, after a crazy week. My mom arrived last Wednesday, then kiddo had her recital on Saturday (rehearsal on Friday), and my mom departed Tuesday. We‘re trying to press through the last couple weeks of school (local schools let out last week, and we‘d planned to end by Memorial Day before the medical emergency set us back). All told, that meant I read less than 10 pages of anything over the previous 10 days.

An engaging retelling of our country's history through the lens of racism and sexism. As someone once said, “very little is new under the sun“ and this book certainly reinforces that history is repeating itself in our current times. Well worth reading!

I wasn‘t surprised by any of the history he relates but the author does a masterful job of constructing her thesis based on facts

I ordered this book today.

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This book is a lesson in history repeating itself. The above quote does not talk about Trump. Any guesses?

Just read in this book that "under God" wasn't added to the pledge of allegiance until the 1950s .. I had to look it up on Wikipedia and sure enough.. and the addition was done out of purely political reasons ... This book is very very dense, but wow does it put American History in a more realistic context.

A brief foray to BN today got me this book and the kiddo got two more Lego sets. She‘s been on quite the binge - she got three sets for her birthday Thursday, plus a basics kit, and she spent some birthday money today on two more (thanks, 30% off sale). I picked this book because I‘ve become addicted to Richardson‘s Facebook analyses of our political world and I love her style.