Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #85: Combat, My Years in the US Senate
New Hampshire used to be a Republican state. Reliably red, as was the rest of New England. Even Massachusetts ("where Lodges speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God"). Now, of course, New England is a Democratic stronghold, and even rock-ribbed New Hampshire is a bluing shade of purple. That Republicanism in NH was never ideologically conservative in the modern sense as much as it was leave-me-the-hell-alone proto-Libertarianism, curmudgeonly Yankee communitarian t