Friday, July 8

            I would like to teach a course someday called, American Studies – Political Thought & Behavior.  I would center the course on biographies and autobiographies, primarily, such as:

Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography;

Mark Twain’s, Life on the Mississippi;

The Education of Henry Adams,

Thomas Edison’s biography;

First Man, the Neil Armstrong story;

            And then I would supplement with the following writings:

James Madison’s notes at the Constitutional Convention;

The Federalist Papers;

Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville;

Walden, Henry David Thoreau.