As @BarkerTV says, it's not true. Also, it reveals the fawning faux-intellectualism of the reading class. https://twitter.com/BarkerTV/status/821035995852312576 …
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Replying to @CoreyRobin @BarkerTV
Agree about a Wilson and TR. But there's been a concerted conservative effort to claim Obama is not *really* all that
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book smart--that is kind of liberal agit-prop, that he needs a Teles-prompter to construct a coherent sentence. This
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does have to be engaged and rebutted. And while erudite people certainly can do bad things, there is both a normative
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And historical argument that reading novels help create an empathic middle class. See Appleby on the history and Rorty
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on the normative point.
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I'd add Nixon to list of well read Presidents.
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Indeed, not sure about fiction, though.
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Well, I doubt if he was a fan of Robert Coover's The Public Burning.
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heh
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In 1950s Nixon corresponded with great Ezra Pound scholar Hugh Kenner, about helping Pound get released.
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Interedying, didn't know that.
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