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Presidential Challenge: John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life, by Paul C. Nagel
Let me just start by saying that this was not one of the biographies that I was really excited about.  After reading John Adams, I kind of thought that I had a pretty basic idea of JQA’s life and thought this would be [...]

Review: In Cheap We Trust

The Book: In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue, by Lauren Weber
The Story: The first half of this book was basically a brief history of America’s spending and saving habits.  It started from the Puritans who first settled here and went through May of 2008.  She talked a lot about the [...]