Amor Towles’s latest book, The Lincoln Highway, came out a little more than a year ago. I picked it up, feeling hopeful I could write a positive Lincoln Highway book review at the end. This is the second book by Towles that I’ve read. I tried A Gentleman in Moscow a little while back (click […]
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“Rain Follows the Plow” – One of America’s Great Mistakes?
“Rain follows the Plow.” It’s a sentence that seems so ridiculous to modern people that we wonder how anyone ever believed it. But in America in the late 19th century, this was gospel truth to some people. Rain follows the plow. The idea behind rain follows the plow was simple and powerful. Proponents needed a […]