Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Uh-oh........................

"......early Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the lanquid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind.   The 1828 presidential campaign pitted a former Harvard professor, John Quincy Adams, against Andrew Jackson, a forceful military hero.  A Jackson campaign slogan tellingly distinguished the two:  'John Quincy Adams, who can write/And Andrew Jackson who can fight.'
     The victor of that campaign?  The fighter beat the writer......"
-Susan Cain, as excerpted from Quiet: The Power of Introverts
In a World That Can't Stop Talking

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