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Showing Original Post only (View all)Two Questions: [View all]
[1] What American (or Americans), living or deceased, would you say represents what you consider among the very best our society has produced?
[2] Why?
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Without giving your question much thought, the names that immediately lept to mind were
scarletwoman
Jan 2014
#6
I think Melville is quintessentially American, and "Bartleby the Scrivener" is genius -- & also
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#71
Helen Keller, socialist, labor rights activist, suffragist, early supporter of the NAACP...
Luminous Animal
Jan 2014
#12
Mark Twain, Joseph Heller, Henry James, Emma Goldman, Edward Snowden, Joan Baez,
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2014
#15
Duke Ellington, Kurt Vonnegut, Susan B Anthony, Orson Wells, Harvey Milk, Malcolm X.
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2014
#20
living - Bernie Sanders why? he knows what empathy is. deceased - they're all dead...
Agony
Jan 2014
#28
Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King. In the modern day - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald
quinnox
Jan 2014
#30
Nobody as disgustingly anti-Semitic as Henry Ford deserves a place on the list (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jan 2014
#41
Waterman, it's not like you to post and run. I'm looking forward to you making some comments here.
scarletwoman
Jan 2014
#35
I don't think the best our society has produced is newsworthy enough to know by name
NoOneMan
Jan 2014
#63
When I lived in Europe, I had a circle of acquaintances who, when I was in a bad mood or
El_Johns
Jan 2014
#75
some very great names here. let me add Satchel Paige, Randolph Bourne and Aldo Leopold to the list
villager
Jan 2014
#85