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as Weygand writes, “the quintessential aristocrats of mendicancy” (a fancier-sounding and less racially loaded version, perhaps, of the contemporary image of the “welfare queen”).
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Their romance with the Yankee dollar,
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
It took considerable doing, but on April 9, 1901, nearly two years after he had proposed to Mary Lily, a bill was introduced into the Florida legislature “to be entitled an act making incurable insanity a ground for divorce.” Before the month was out, the bill had sailed through both houses and had been signed into law by the governor. Florida news
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
That mutual friend—Ed Luce—is remarkably good humored about introducing me to Marne. They both worked for Larry Summers at the Treasury Department.
Sarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Leo Melamed, Man of the Futures: The Story of Leo Melamed & the Birth of Modern Finance