it is very linktone he and. -- lincolian. they see the country has largely made up of mill people. they define these things in terms of manhood. and they mean white manhood. most anti monopolists are racist to the core. it's also about men. it is about the ability of man to support a family. it is about women being a domestic, being in the home. so there are real limits. it is not the kind of thing you bring over into the late 20th century, but to me it was another one of those revealing points. i'm looking at a different way of seeing the world. americans in the late 19th century are not like us. they thought of the world in a very, very different way. once you understand that the politics becomes much more comprehensible. richard: you -- i want to dwell for a minute. i would be remiss if i didn't. one of the stylistic properties of this book. it's not merely a deeply researched and compellingly told analytic and narrative history but you sprinkle through the book, i'm not sure quite what to call them, elements, that reminded me of the way so many different elements are put togeth