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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
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| It's really hard not to admire Sonia Sotomayor, and this book helps you extend any intellectual or American Dream crush you had on her. Though the beginning of the book is stronger than the end — she describes her childhood with the same persona I wi...more | |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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I'm a big fan of epic historic tomes, and this one deserves to be placed among the best. It basically lives up to its hype. This is a complicated portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, and I wish that the move that "adapted" it had been half so nuanced. I rea...more |
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| I really love his writing. There's something about it that's totally mystifying and soothing at the same time. He carries you away on this weird journey, sometimes leaving you questioning where you are and where this could possibly be going. It someh...more | |
“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.”
― Emily Hahn, Fractured Emerald: Ireland
― Emily Hahn, Fractured Emerald: Ireland
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