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Paradise Atop The Hudson – A Sixties Working Class Middlemarch

Paradise Atop The Hudson – A Sixties Working Class Middlemarch

Adam represent a complementary problem.  What happens to a compassionate, caring boy in a context which was, in spite of all the ways Sammy Juliano and I might celebrate, marred by toxic masculinity?  Much as I am inclined to root for the home team Paradise Atop The Hudson is not quite as good as Middlemarch, but you have to consider that it is a first novel.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.