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What Obama Might Learn From Emily Dickinson [Correction 5/5/08]
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080421
Author:Shankar Vedantam
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/ Success in Circuit lies/ Too bright for our infirm Delight/ The Truth's superb surprise . . .
-- Emily Dickinson
In 1880, a journalist called Horace Redfield published a book about homicide rates in America. He found that states belonging to the former Confederacy had a murder rate four to 15 times higher than that of Northern states.
"In Kentucky that year there were more homicides than in the eight States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota," Redfield wrote in "Homicide: North and ...
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