For Labor Day, I have chosen something short so it will not require much labor. It is probably my favorite short story and is not inappropriate today, since New Hampshire with its motto “Live Free or Die” is considered a “swing state”.
The story, The Devil and Daniel Wesbter, was written in 1936 by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Daniel Webster, a lawyer, an intensely patriotic statesman, and an almost mythical character, is asked to defend Jabez Stone, who had made a contract with the Devil. Resolved to come to the aid of a fellow New Hamshireman, Webster accepts the challenge.
I think, like many others, that this story is indeed a classic and may be a metaphor for our current political turmoil.
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