4/Teddy Roosevelt gets the most coverage, and is obviously the focus of the author's scholarship. A fascinating man, both brilliant and crazy, full of contradictions and inconsistencies. His importance seems underrated in most popular accounts of American history.
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We need a cause which everyone can believe in, and to form a viable inst around it through which all ppls can interact around. The former will be hard. 1/
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WW2 was nice bc our enemies were cartoonishly evil mostly (and could be easily propagandaized to look as evil even when they were not). Hard to find a better cause (see WW1). 2/
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It's not just the effects from the war itself, it's the imagery made during and after the war: news, TV, movies. Growing up in the 60s WWII dominated our national self image and defined "real America". AAS were completely invisible in that story during my childhood and YA yrs.
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I hope so. The good news is people can get along across racial boundaries and we've become more inclusive over time. Lets build something great together and not end up like Renaissance Florence.
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Thanks. Interesting.
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Have you read "American Nations"? Not the first work of its kind, but reading it made me think of the currents of society differently. The complete annihilation in all but name of the Party of Lincoln lends some credibility to its claim of human-geographical-societal roots.
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Notably, a strip of land across the coast of the North-West spanning Monterey to Juneau was re-settled by ship by infamously prescriptive New Englanders. And here we are, imposing soda taxes and banning sale of flavored tobaccos...
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...maybe we have more in common with Vermont-origin Mormons in Salt Lake City than we might otherwise think. In some ways, it's already aberrant.https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676269/Could-Utah-become-a-blue-state-Why-expert-Nate-Silver-says-it-already-is.html …
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Basically, your own analysis belies the actual importance of this book. It's pretty fundamental for anybody who wants to understand the historical origins of our much of present conflict and I recommend it regularly.
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Along those lines do you have any recommendations for a good political history of the immediate postwar era through the 1950s. Focusing on how this idea of "liberal consensus" was formed? (This is a total shot in the dark)
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Yeah, lots of articles in the literature, but this is a great book on exactly that subject:https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-American-Way-Politics-Consensus/dp/019539240X …
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Oh thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
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Sure thing--it's a terrific book.
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It will become a non-issue as mixed-marriages are on the rise.
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