A pig roast led to the most succulent crackling skin crisps, reminding me of a Laura Ingalls Wilder passage on enjoying a pig’s tail, which led to a discovery that the author is Libertarian inspo material. But her passages about food are truly the most memorable. I understood a pig roast from her writing a decade before I ever went to one myself.
How ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Built Modern Conservatism
Think literature can't change society? With catchy stories and a lucrative royalty stream, Rose Wilder Lane helped reshape American politics, from her young readers to the Koch brothers.
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