Two books by authors I really like, and while 'Bournville' was enjoyable, it didn't carry the scathing critiques of other books by Jonathan Coe like 'What a Carve-Up!' and it all felt a bit cosy, although as a state-of-the-nation book it was very good. HCR's book was very in-depth and I ended up skimming a lot of it. The conflicts and crossovers between North, south and West in America helped form the modern state though, and many of the issues we see now go back to the period after the civil war - is America a place for a wealthy white elite or a land of opportunity? How far should government intervene to regulate market and societal failures? Even who should get to participate in a democracy
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