Heather Ann Thompson
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But then they'd hire you.
So we're talking literally of shuddering public libraries everywhere.
getting rid of public programs that people needed, and then looking at those people and saying, what's your problem?
Why are you selling drugs?
Or why are you so poor?
Or why can't you get out of public housing?
And the saddest part of this is that that took work.
It took effort.
And there's only one real beneficiary in this story.
And that's the people who always push back at the New Deal on the public sector.
And those were the wealthiest Americas.
They didn't want to have to pay into it, frankly.
And they say it.
They say it in my book.
Well, part of it is I'm a historian.
I'm not a journalist.
So I do my work quite differently.
You'll see that there's hundreds of pages of footnotes.
I'm really in the trial transcripts at the moment.
I'm in the city records.