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Comment on What Are You Reading Now? by Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:33:44 +0000

You’re right: I did hear the last generation of those speakers who still referred to it as the War of Northern Aggression. (Course y’all know where Ft. Sumter is, right?). And that phraseology fits into my theory.

The “inevitable” clash was postponed by ethical men in Philadelphia, then by Henry Clay and others: Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. What changed? The G.O.P. , Northern industry and cupidity.

Comment on The Days of Our Broncos, Part Uno by AUSTIN GOOSE GONSOULIN

AUSTIN GOOSE GONSOULIN — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:21:55 +0000

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Comment on What Are You Reading Now? by wisco

wisco — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:52:53 +0000

Those sound good. You mean the War of Northern Aggression? Interesting theory but I’m skeptical. I think the battle over slavery had been brewing since the founding and everybody knew it. Maybe some people figured out a way to profit from the inevitable clash?

Comment on What Are You Reading Now? by Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:16:13 +0000

Currently reading:

“A Stillness at Appomatox”, Catton’s Pulitizer prize winner about the final years of the war between the states; and

“Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History:” by S.C. Gwynne.

Just finished:

Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan (Outstanding!)

“That Old Cape Magic” by Richard Russo (not as funny and sadder that his superior “Straight Man”)

And while this shows by Southern-based education:

What if I asserted that the War between the States was 15% about abolishing slavery, 15% about protecting slavery, 10% about “states rights”, and 60% about creating an Eastern, Republican pro-business hegemony?

By destroying the South, slavery, and crippling the Democratic Party, the Eastern industrial and Wall St. Republicans won 30 years of uniterrupted laissez faire government, high tariffs, tight money, protected “wage slavery” and the made the Gilded Age possible!

Comment on What Are You Reading Now? by wisco

wisco — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:48:37 +0000

I’m with you on Battle Cry of Freedom. I haven’t read much else about the Civil War but I’ve heard that is still the best single volume on the subject. It’s also a pretty interesting view of the period. Someday I’ll re-read it. And one of these days I’ll read those books about the Girl with the Tattoo, etc.

Comment on What Are You Reading Now? by wratha

wratha — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:09:18 +0000

So I’m sort of in the middle of three books which makes it really difficult to finish any of them. Snow by Orhan Pamuk is the only fiction – good but tough to get through. Lobster Coast is about Maine and I should have been able to polish it off in a week but stupid work has gotten in the way. Last but not least is Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson. Probably the only civil war history book I’ve ever read since high school. Of course it’s 900 pages so almost by definition it’s tough to get through. It has been very helpful in dispelling the myth that the civil war was about states’ rights as some on the right would have you believe and really was about slavery right from the beginning. I probably would have finished all three by now if The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest hadn’t come by.

Comment on Holland Redux, Part I by L P Pascoe

L P Pascoe — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:53:24 +0000

Enjoyed your first trip report and am now looking forward to the second installment.
I’d be glad to read your WWII novel. Do you mention Monte Cassino? Regards, Pat

Comment on World War II Novel by wisco

wisco — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:00:52 +0000

Thanks man, I’ll take you up on that. It’ll be a few months before I have my second draft ready. Hopefully not more than six.

Comment on World War II Novel by Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:27:40 +0000

Willing reader here with solid knowledge of context – German kultur; SA, SS, and Wermacht stuff: military history of WW II in the European theatre, shaky on love story -

Comment on Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose! by Kaden Hayes

Kaden Hayes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:22:39 +0000

Friday Night Lights has been my nightime favorite show.:;;