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Impossibly long book, but I’m enjoying it!

Initial premise is that the U.S has an unanswered argument built into its Founding framework: what is the right balance between freedom and equality?

Chiseling away at this book. A part-time government professor needs to stay abreast of Constitutional history all day and all night.

I may never get through this book. Writing is clever in some parts and in other parts he gets tied up in metaphorical knots (i.e., sounds of nature).

So far, Thoreau is brilliant. He’s at Walden Pond in New England discussing the problems of materialistic society.

His protests includes “I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes”.

That gave me pause.