Current Reading:Boss Cox's Cincinnati-Ethics Of Identity

The Houston Democracy Project likes to read books.  

I've finished reading Boss Cox's Cincinnati by Zane Miller and will next read The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah. Cincinnati is my home town.

About Boss Cox's Cincinnati:

* The accounts of the different geographical sections of Cincinnati were vivid & informative.

* The subject of should saloons be open on Sunday took up a lot oxygen in Cincinnati at the turn of the 19th century.

* Different ethnic groups with no historic grudge with one another will still find a path to fighting when tossed together by circumstance. Can't we all get along?

* All groups were unkind to Black Cincinnatians.

* Bossism has good points and bad. Reform has good points and bad. A middle course has good points and bad.

* Boss Cox was counted out many times, but came back time and time again. Different factions and viewpoints would rise and fall and then return again at the ballot box.

*It was a long haul up the hills from Downtown to places like Hyde Park and Avondale before street cars & automobiles. Especially in winter.

* Boss Cox has a big grave in Spring Grove Cemetery that I see twice a year when I visit the cemetery, but is as dead as any other Cincinnatian of the era.

​* After 30 years of staring at Boss Cox's Cincinnati on the bookshelf, I can now say I've read it.

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