States


Atlas Shrugged
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
1776
John Adams
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
The Glass Castle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hearts in Atlantis
Naked
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
I Am America (And So Can You!)
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Reece  Jones
By refusing to abide by a wall, map, property line, border, identity document, or legal regime, mobile people upset the state's schemes of exclusion, control, and violence. They do this simply by moving. ...more
Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

Francis Fukuyama
A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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