New Book Teaches History We're Supposed to Forget

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"...

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Published in:Human events (Washington) 2007, Vol.63 (30), p.16
Main Author: Cheeks, Robert C
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Body fluids
Mysteries
Nonfiction
Propaganda
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Summary: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."
ISSN:0018-7194