Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
Just finished Dan Rather's What Unites Us. It's a 270-page essay that reads like a 1950's civics book. Some very good points and is more balanced (although definitely leans left) than I thought it would. Some very good reminders for people of all political stripes on how civil society should work.
This comment makes me want to find an actual 1950s civics textbook. I think it would be interesting to go back as far as possible reading books from US history and civics classes just to see how much the subject matter and message has changed.