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motivation

America's perverse attachment to capitalism

When I was doing research for my diary about "Worst President in modern American history," I noticed that the historians (I'm guessing they bear some vague relation to actual historians; I didn't check their credentials) tended to give a lot of the Presidents in the period before the US Civil War really low ratings.