Chase
@mc9t.bsky.social
Aspiring polymath fueled by books, U.S. history, music, podcasts, and travel.
Purveyor of professional mixing consoles by day
Purveyor of professional mixing consoles by day
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Supreme Court Justice James Wilson once fled debtors’ prison while still serving on the bench. A Founding Father and legal giant… who couldn’t outrun his bills.
Supreme Court Justice James Wilson once fled debtors’ prison while still serving on the bench. A Founding Father and legal giant… who couldn’t outrun his bills.
July 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Did you know? ⚖️
Supreme Court Justice James Wilson once fled debtors’ prison while still serving on the bench. A Founding Father and legal giant… who couldn’t outrun his bills.
Supreme Court Justice James Wilson once fled debtors’ prison while still serving on the bench. A Founding Father and legal giant… who couldn’t outrun his bills.
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
July 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
“I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government—can render us secure.”
— James Madison
— James Madison
July 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government—can render us secure.”
— James Madison
— James Madison
“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.”
— FDR
— FDR
June 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.”
— FDR
— FDR
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both.
— James Madison
— James Madison
March 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both.
— James Madison
— James Madison
It’s live! 🤩 Time to start the audiobook… #booksky
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Amazon.com: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge eBook : Coolidge, Calvin, McKnight, C. Andrew: Kindle Store
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February 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It’s live! 🤩 Time to start the audiobook… #booksky
Latest purchase from @lasvegasbooks.bsky.social. Not my favorite SecDef but it was signed and priced too good to pass up! 📚 #booksky
February 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Latest purchase from @lasvegasbooks.bsky.social. Not my favorite SecDef but it was signed and priced too good to pass up! 📚 #booksky
“I view him as a man of violent passions, arbitrary in his disposition, and frequently engaged in broils and disputes… He is a man of talents, and, were it not for those despotic principles, he might be a useful man.”
— William Henderson in a letter to Jefferson regarding Andrew Jackson, 1804.
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— William Henderson in a letter to Jefferson regarding Andrew Jackson, 1804.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I view him as a man of violent passions, arbitrary in his disposition, and frequently engaged in broils and disputes… He is a man of talents, and, were it not for those despotic principles, he might be a useful man.”
— William Henderson in a letter to Jefferson regarding Andrew Jackson, 1804.
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— William Henderson in a letter to Jefferson regarding Andrew Jackson, 1804.
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The best used bookstore in Las Vegas! #booksky
We're a used bookstore located in Las Vegas NV.🃏🎰We carry an assortment of books for readers and collectors. So come visit us, we're open 10am to 8pm daily. 😄
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#lasvegasbookstores #booksky
February 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The best used bookstore in Las Vegas! #booksky
Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is essential reading for understanding the Black experience in America at the turn of the 20th century #booksky
February 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is essential reading for understanding the Black experience in America at the turn of the 20th century #booksky
February 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We must not shut our eyes to the nature of man, nor to the light of experience. Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third?
James Madison - “Note to Speech on the Rights of Suffrage” 1821
James Madison - “Note to Speech on the Rights of Suffrage” 1821
January 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We must not shut our eyes to the nature of man, nor to the light of experience. Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third?
James Madison - “Note to Speech on the Rights of Suffrage” 1821
James Madison - “Note to Speech on the Rights of Suffrage” 1821
Another recent acquisition:
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks
January 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Another recent acquisition:
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks
signed 1929 copy of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
#booksky #history #lasvegasbooks
The letters between Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams) and Thomas Jefferson are fascinating, especially ones between May and October 1804, after the loss of Jefferson’s daughter, Polly (Mary)
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The letters between Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams) and Thomas Jefferson are fascinating, especially ones between May and October 1804, after the loss of Jefferson’s daughter, Polly (Mary)
Finished the Jefferson audiobook and now onto President Garfield
#audiobooksky
#audiobooksky
January 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Finished the Jefferson audiobook and now onto President Garfield
#audiobooksky
#audiobooksky
Looking forward to all of these, especially A Wicked War — I just joined @rbhayespres.bsky.social Presidential History #Book Club, which we’ll be reading it next month! #booksky #history #bookclub
January 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Looking forward to all of these, especially A Wicked War — I just joined @rbhayespres.bsky.social Presidential History #Book Club, which we’ll be reading it next month! #booksky #history #bookclub
"The contemplation of what we are, what we were, and what we might have been is enough to sicken the heart."
— Henry Clay (1842)
— Henry Clay (1842)
January 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"The contemplation of what we are, what we were, and what we might have been is enough to sicken the heart."
— Henry Clay (1842)
— Henry Clay (1842)
Today’s book delivery! Shout out to River House Books in San Antonio, TX. Will start this as soon as I finish Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power #books #booksky #jefferson
January 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today’s book delivery! Shout out to River House Books in San Antonio, TX. Will start this as soon as I finish Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power #books #booksky #jefferson
Recently picked up this 1858 copy of Sen Thomas Hart Benton’s Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the The Dred Scott Case, which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act #books #booksky
January 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM