Posted
10:14 AM
by Gene
We would buy more books if we had the money for them. (We waste it instead on CDs and DVDs.)
Jonathan Yardley's review of what is no doubt a fine one-volume history of "Jacksonian" America (with the great title of
What Hath God Wrought -- no question mark!) underlines Henry Adams's dictum about our nation's perfection of historical amnesia. I am vaguely familiar with the period and suspect one could say it constituted America's true renaissance. One could also say the country was run by foot-stomping ambitious hotheads like Andy Jackson who helped it careen toward civil war. Odd to think the now ultra-PC Democrats were the party of -- slaveholders?
We must put this on our personal bookmarks:
The Oxford History of the United States.