For my Health Policy class, I've been asked to read Hellfire Nation by James A. Morone. So far, I've read the introduction, where he laid down this nugget:
"The Puritans...sent heritics packing to Rhode Island ('the latrina of New England,' even then)." (p 9)
Excuse me, Mr Morone? And you happen to be a professor at Brown University in none other than Rhode Island? What kind of comment is that? Calling your home state a toilet? And what does that make you?
Needless to say, I'm not too eager to read the rest of the book after that comment.
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