That 's why , at our house , I read aloud from that holiday classic , Eric Foner 's The Story of American Freedom . The kids throw another SimuLog on the fire , and I tell them about the 1950s when , Foner says , the noble ideas of the American Revolution at last evolved from old-fashioned political freedom to the modern freedom to shop in the mall of your choice .
He does not read a loud at his house .