Ingraham is at his best describing the minutiae of his move to Minnesota with his family, the little details that form a community are engaging and funny, but he’s at his worst bloviating in self-contradictory generalities, platitudes, and theories about modern america.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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