Ten For Today: Bootstraps

Donald Height, Rab Noakes, John Hartford, Ersel Hickey, S.A.R.L., Rufus, Stewart Brodian, UFO, Cable Ties, Larkin Poe

I read a really great book over the weekend called Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream, by Alissa Quart. In it, she calls bullshit (my word, not hers) on the very American myth of the self-made man. A senator I know got into some big trouble back in 2012 for saying similar. BUT SHE WAS RIGHT. Quart takes aim at a lot of people and…