Word: nantucketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a knotty point. Skeptical, intelligent, educated, he is a propagandist for the liberal attitude, for the cultured and inquiring mind. Now and then in his spare time he writes a book. Liberty, chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for June, was written last summer at Wauwinet, Nantucket Island. Confesses Inquirer Martin: "Our people have little of the philosophy of freedom. . . . The things which we take for granted are the things for which we no longer fight. But when a populace becomes indifferent to its freedom, it begins to lose it." Liberty, once a matter of politics...