Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Wesley Yang
Oakes' book on Lincoln & Frederick Douglass was excellent. He knows his subject.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1200562234474168320 …
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James Oakes, historian of anti-slavery, calls the invocation of the quasi-biological term "cultural DNA", "a confession of intellectual failure," in an otherwise admiring review of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s book and PBS documentary on Reconstruction. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/reconstruction-unfinished-revolution/ … pic.twitter.com/Tmut4EEZKY
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