New Book Teaches History We're Supposed to Forget

Human EventsAugust 21, 2009

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If you're over 55, please have a box of Kleenex available for this one Or, a really, really, good one for those of you who refer to the "civil war" as the "War Between the States" or the "War for Southern Independence" or the "War of Northern Aggression" is the chapter "Was the Civil War All About Slavery, or Was Something Else At Stake?" First Imperial President But we can take a quick peak at a really, really good example titled "Who is Most Responsible for the 'Imperial Presidency'?" Now, I know that there are Republican Party stalwarts reading this who are salivating over the prospects that Woods names Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or Lyndon Johnson. Dr. Woods also informs his readers that ( 1 ) at the age of 20 Teddy had a fight with his girlfriend, came home and shot and killed the neighbor's dog; (2) upon shooting and killing his first buffalo-PETA members please don't read any further-he "abandoned himself to complete hysteria...." and "as historian Edmund Morris put it, 'whooping and shrieking while his guide watched in stolid - amazement;'" and, (3) for the proverbial kicker Woods adds, "His reaction was similar in 1898 when he killed his first Spaniard."

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New Book Teaches History We're Supposed to Forget

New Book Teaches History We're Supposed to Forget

"History has many cunning passages . . ."

- T.S. Eliot, "Gerontion."

The study of history, in general, and American history, hi particular, is supposedly a rather easy discipline. The truth is that history is supremely complex.

Take, for example, the following "philosophically pregnant" description of the historical process provided by the erudite Dr. Eric Voegelin: "The process of h...

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