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Supreme Court Justice James Wilson once fled debtors’ prison while still serving on the bench. A Founding Father and legal giant… who couldn’t outrun his bills.

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

“I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government—can render us secure.”

— James Madison

“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.”

— FDR

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both.

— James Madison

‎The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge ‎Biographies & Memoirs · 1929

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It’s live! 🤩 Time to start the audiobook… #booksky

Latest purchase from @lasvegasbooks.bsky.social. Not my favorite SecDef but it was signed and priced too good to pass up! 📚 #booksky

“I view him as a man of violent passions, arbitrary in his disposition, and frequently engaged in broils and disputes… He is a man of talents, and, were it not for those despotic principles, he might be a useful man.”

— William Henderson in a letter to Jefferson regarding Andrew Jackson, 1804.

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Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is essential reading for understanding the Black experience in America at the turn of the 20th century #booksky

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Alternating between reading ‘A Wicked War’ and listening to this #audiobook 🎧📖

Really enjoyed Mr. Goodyear’s time today! Thanks for putting these on and look forward to next Tuesday and beyond.

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We must not shut our eyes to the nature of man, nor to the light of experience. Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third?

James Madison - “Note to Speech on the Rights of Suffrage” 1821

Looking forward to start it!

Another recent acquisition:
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks

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The letters between Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams) and Thomas Jefferson are fascinating, especially ones between May and October 1804, after the loss of Jefferson’s daughter, Polly (Mary)

Finished the Jefferson audiobook and now onto President Garfield
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Looking forward to all of these, especially A Wicked War — I just joined @rbhayespres.bsky.social Presidential History #Book Club, which we’ll be reading it next month! #booksky #history #bookclub

"The contemplation of what we are, what we were, and what we might have been is enough to sicken the heart."
— Henry Clay (1842)

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I don’t believe so, but him and his brother Jesse were in an altercation with Andrew Jackson in 1813 resulting in Jackson getting shot though

Thomas Hart Benton’s Thirty Years View (1854 & 1856)

Today’s book delivery! Shout out to River House Books in San Antonio, TX. Will start this as soon as I finish Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power #books #booksky #jefferson

Today’s score! 1883 first edition of William Graham Sumner’s What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

This is something I’ve read via pdf scans but excited to now have a real copy 🤩 #books #booksky