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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6301002, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], thanks back <i>at</i> you. That's on my 'to read' list. ...Yeah, we'll see where that goes. But the author was given at least one good, hour-long interview somewhere on NPR.</p><p>...It's kind of devastating to see how part of the generationally immediate context was the effectively total, 'state's rights' subversion of Reconstruction.</p><p>...Regarding that, I do think that, at least morally, Grant was one of our better presidents. He was doing the best he knew how, in his own, very politically toxic context.</p><p>...Remind you of anyone? Favorite line of Mark Twain, again: 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure as Hell rhymes.'</p><p>Leading directly to William Faulkner: 'The past isn't dead. It's not even past.'</p><p>People who view the Confederate Battle Flag as (big fat, balloon-sized air quotes: ) "Heritage," take note: where heritage is concerned, some of the rest of us are paying attention!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6301002, member: 110504"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], thanks back [I]at[/I] you. That's on my 'to read' list. ...Yeah, we'll see where that goes. But the author was given at least one good, hour-long interview somewhere on NPR. ...It's kind of devastating to see how part of the generationally immediate context was the effectively total, 'state's rights' subversion of Reconstruction. ...Regarding that, I do think that, at least morally, Grant was one of our better presidents. He was doing the best he knew how, in his own, very politically toxic context. ...Remind you of anyone? Favorite line of Mark Twain, again: 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure as Hell rhymes.' Leading directly to William Faulkner: 'The past isn't dead. It's not even past.' People who view the Confederate Battle Flag as (big fat, balloon-sized air quotes: ) "Heritage," take note: where heritage is concerned, some of the rest of us are paying attention!!![/QUOTE]
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