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July 2012 - Posts
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In After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of American History's Heroes , Villains, and Supporting Characters , Owen J. Hurd shows that the past is epilogue, too The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. A good idea Read More...
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In Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians, Robert W. Merry hails -- and flails -- the chiefs The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. It seems that every few years there's Read More...
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Jim is vacationing in Massachusetts. His recent listening has included Neil Young's latest album with Crazy Horse, Americana . By this point, picking up a Young/Horse album is like slipping into an old shoe: beat-up but irresistibly comfortable. The novelty Read More...
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The following is the last in a set of 3 exploratory posts on the place -- and lack thereof -- of the self-made man in American cultural life. (The other two posts ran on July 9 & 13, 2012.) While I have said, and maintain, that the essence of the self-made Read More...
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This is the second in a series of exploratory pieces on the myth of the self-made man in American cultural history. (See "The Self-Made Man in Hiding," two posts below.) To a great degree, the erasure of the self-made man from common parlance reflects Read More...
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Remembering a great poet, and the work of art she wrought from personal disaster, 346 years later. Even now I can see that house burning. The fire, a huge orange sheet, sweeps up toward the New England night, overrunning that wood, glass and thatching, Read More...
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One of my projects for this summer has been investigating the possibility of writing a book about the self-made man in American culture. The following is an excerpt from some notes toward such a possibility. --JC These have not been good days for the Read More...
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Veteran journalist Robert Draper renders a chronicle of dysfunction in Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the House of Representatives The following has been posted on the Books page of the History News Network site. Texan Robert Draper is a journalist's Read More...
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