03-29-2018, 09:46 PM
(03-29-2018, 09:31 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Sounds like a good thread, but I would not be a participant. I just can’t get through most of those books.
I have a feeling that is the case for most people. Right now I have three books going:
A Traitor To His Class - a biography on FDR focusing on his favoring the middle and lower classes over his peers.
The New Jim Crow - a look at mass incarceration and its role replacing Jim Crow laws from the pre-civil rights era.
On Democracy - well, I've already described this one.
All three of those would be fun to talk about in here. I'm also reading I Can't Breathe for the class I am taking. But I know most people aren't like this and would have a hard time with any of those three books I'm reading jsut for myself, really. While I'm using one for research, my project was guided so that I could use it as an excuse to buy that book.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
