AmericanDreamer

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• Location northern Virginia
• Party Democrat
• Politics idealist without illusions (what I work towards, at any rate, it being in the nature of illusions that one does not generally know when one has one)

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• Favorite Books A few that come to mind are Walking with the Wind, John Lewis (perhaps my top living "famous person" hero); Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, Henry Ashby Turner; Cincinnatus, Garry Wills (on George Washington and the ethical exercise of power); Everything for Sale, Robert Kuttner (on the uses and limitations of markets, best single book on economic policy I have read); Animal Farm and other works by George Orwell; A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind; The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr; Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years, eds. Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman; RFK: A Memoir, by Jack Newfield; Lincoln's Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shenk.
• Favorite Quotes (lately; it changes) "Two pins shared a balloon. Watch out, said one of them, I'm going to prick a hole in *your* half." Tor Age Bringsvaerd, courtesy website of Thomas Hylland Eriksen