Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Practical Agitation
John Jay Chapman · 2019
74/100
👍 Worth It
Chapman's 1900 argument that individual moral integrity matters more than party machinery is as alive today as it was then, and his prose has real force. The free public-domain availability is a genuine bonus. Readers will need some grounding in late-Victorian American politics to get the most out of it, but the core civic philosophy translates well across the century.
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