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2. We once gave our son ...

Reply to krhines (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 11:27 AM

Dec 2012

when he was a bit older (maybe 10th grade!) Paul Wellstone's The Conscience of a Liberal. It made a big impact on him. (Disclosure: he had grown up in Minnesota, and this was just after Wellstone's tragic death, so maybe that played into his interest. But perhaps it is still relevant and interesting to a younger reader, given that it deals with childhood memories and how they contributed to his eventual beliefs about justice and politics.)

http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-conscience-of-a-liberal

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