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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike is currently reading

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

by Zaakir Tameez (Goodreads Author)

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Mike said: " * In Roberts V. Boston, Sumner coined "equality before the law"
* Pro slavery colleagues in Senate he said threatened the Republic and reminded them of Roman traitors being executed
* Likely was gay
* Crime Against Kansas was 5 hours from memory saying ...more "

Feb 12, 2026 01:13PM · see review

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The Deadline

by Jill Lepore

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Mike said: " * The hold of the dead over the living as a theme in Lepore's work
* Deadline was around prisons 1860s meaning you'd be killed if you crossed it, early 1900s became when to get work done

* Ben Franklin and his sister Jane were quite close yet so differ ...more "

Feb 11, 2026 01:35PM · see review

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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon

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Mike said: " Ch. 1
* Reproduction is actually production. We want ourselves to live forever not necessarily someone independent of ourselves
* We often are prideful of being different from out parents but sad out kids are different from us.
* Vertical identity is ty ...more "

Dec 26, 2023 07:55PM · see review

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