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Jul 27, 2018MaryJoSchifsky rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Recc by Barbara Baill June 2018 Excellent accounting of a woman raised in ID by a bi-polar dad and compliant mom. P 240: "To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble."