Crawford's book documents the many valuable life lessons learned and philosophical insights gleaned from fixing motorcycles, lessons he would never have learned at the think tank, and insights he would never have gleaned were it not for a doctorate in political philosophy. Nothing against motorcycle mechanics, but most simply don't have the language and knowledge base to compare a leaky oil cylinder on a 1983 Honda Magna V45 with Heidegger's question of being.

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