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I almost bought The Big Short for my nook but held off after reading it was largely a character study of some of the major players involved. I did read "The Big Takeover" and "The Great American Bubble Machine", both by Matt Taibbi, which were on the same topic and extremely incendiary.
I'm currently reading Uranium, which is about the history of the discovery and then the production and mining of the element.
This week, I had my students read "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly", "The Hollow Men", and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the American Lit class I teach.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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