Sigh. I grew up reading the "Little House on the Prairie" series. I find it hard to believe Rose Wilder would have been friends with the person who is as nasty as the one you're describing. And yet...they were indeed friends.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1353776614186733579 …
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe
Rose Wilder Lane's life was more complex than her mom's childhood stories. She and Rand were among the intellectual founders of American libertarianism and fiercely opposed the New Deal and all its works, such as Social Security.
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Replying to @dianabhenriques
True. But even so, I don't think being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil. People can have different perspectives about what makes the most sense economically. I think we do need a safety net. Others might disagree.
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe
Whoa. Nothing in my tweet came close to suggesting that "being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil." I merely pointed out that the friendship you found mysterious may have rested on political affinity, not on who was nice or "nasty."
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Replying to @dianabhenriques @ChristieSmythe
Lol Rose Wilder Lane wasn't just "opposed to the New Deal" she spent the 1930s as an anti-FDR conspiracy theorist and antiwar concern troll who publicly defended Hitler She flipped on all that in a big hurry once the war started but it's public record
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Later on in life she was quite bitter over Ayn Rand eclipsing her fame as a "founding mother of American libertarianism" and fumed that the publishing industry favored Rand over her because she was Jewish Really fascinatingly awful person
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I also find it interesting that because LIW wrote an interesting account of her life that was later romanticized on tv, that means the daughter couldn’t possibly be a terrible person with terrible friends. Says a lot about CS’s thought process & maybe some of her choices
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Replying to @Cassandra0Paige @arthur_affect and
Rose Wilder co-wrote most of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. And, let's be honest...though it may not have been seen as such at the time, they're often pretty racist. Especially towards Native Americans.
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Replying to @rmmcgrath @Cassandra0Paige and
FWIW, although many people make this claim, the evidence is actually pretty weak that Rose's involvement went above "editor" to "coauthor" and a lot of it seems to come from the libertarian cult of personality around Rose
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
After reading PRAIRIE FIRES I agree with Fraser that Rose wasn't a good enough writer to be the coauthor of the Little House books, her mom was just better at it than she was (a fact that bothered her her whole life)
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The strongest evidence for this POV, which has since been buried by Rose's fans as much as possible, is that *Rose wrote her own version of her family history to directly compete with the Little House series* Even while she was helping Laura get her books published
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
Rose's version of the story, Free Land, is obviously inferior in ways that are characteristic of her - much weaker and flatter characterization in favor of much more blatant political preaching And even though the book sold well at the time it's largely been forgotten
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
But as Fraser points out, someone editing a book for publication and then turning right around and writing their own book that's a knockoff of the first one based on the same events would be seen as shockingly unethical at best under normal circumstances
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