“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.”
11.22.63.
Tag: History
The Fall of Camelot.
With the forty-year anniversary of JFK’s assassination tomorrow, former White House correspondent Tom Wicker assesses Kennedy’s place in history, Sean Wilentz examines his civil rights record, and David Greenberg refutes the Dallas-Watergate connection.
Brave New Century.
Slow and steady wins the race, I hope:
Paul, Polls, Pols, and Pints.
More grist for the orals mill:
| Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism. William Gillette, Retreat from Reconstruction: 1869-1879. Matthew Josephson, The Politicos. W.J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. |
Revisionist History.
After several notable historians question the case in the NY Times, Tim Noah of Slate revisits the plagiarism allegations surrounding Doris Kearns Goodwin. I must say, it still looks pretty ugly, although I am curious to read her forthcoming Lincoln book.
Consume and Progress.
Another wave of updates over at the Orals site:
| Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. Daniel Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920. |
This Modern Life.
AICN points the way to the trailer for Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, soon to be re-released at a theater (possibly) near you. Hmm…I wonder if free-market conservatives will try to protect Frederick Winslow Taylor the way they recently did Ronnie Reagan?
11/11.
By way of Kestrel’s Nest, Aftermath, a remembrance of the end of World War I, which came to a close on this day 85 years ago. Among the millions who died in the Great War was my great-grandfather, Alfred Amory Sullivan — he perished in the Battle of the Somme, on the side of the British.
Neustadt’s End.
R.I.P. Richard Neustadt 1919-2003. His book Presidential Power was one of the first I read in college, and its argument still stays with me. He will be missed.
Party with Powhatan.
Williamsburg preps for Jamestown’s 400th birthday. I wonder if they’ll invite Roanoke.