I reap the rewards of men who gave much and personally got little in return. I read about Jefferson, Washington, Adams (all), Henry and the others but not cohesively, if you know what I mean.
We are truly a blessed people but dumb as rocks.
It’s an honor to be acquainted with an officially educated historian — especially a patriotic one!
But I’ve been disillusioned about historians in general after reading their books.
Most progressive historians had skuttled military history. So no worries.
Oh wait — they are excellent at Civil War trivia.
They can even take an exciting biography and make it dull as dust — avoiding all things military in biographies.
I saw one book, ‘The Other side of Wellington’ [paraphrasing]. The only biography of Wellington in the entire library, and it was about everything in his life that was NOT involved in warfare.
I’ve also noticed that the old worn out books written prior to WWII tend to be better history books than the glossy, newer ‘upgrades’.
There are exceptions though. I found a great book in the Dollar Tree this year — too bad it didn’t sell very well.
It was ‘The Generals’ by Thomas E Ricks.
It covers generals from WWII up through to the Petreus Surge.
It was very in-depth about actual military decisions.
Prime focus — how Marshall had instilled a method of relieving failing officers and giving other officers a chance. And how that method vanished and led to stagnation.
Ricks has a great way of cutting to the chase. He was the first historian to explain the successful strategy of fighting insurgents/guerrillas applied by Petreus, and how that same method was skuttled during Vietnam.
History of religions — did you learn much about the Jewish heretics? I believe they were the reason why so many Jews later turned to marxism [including Soros’ wacko father].
I’m beginning to think that the Jewish traditionalist leaders felt insecure in Christian nations during Enlightenment and the Printing Press. So they overreacted to any threats to their doctrine. I guess you might call them ‘orthodoxy-wannabes’. I tried calling them an orthodoxy because they weilded secular power and even whipped up mobs and murderers.
Speaking of Jefferson, when Greene headed down to take charge in the South, he stopped by and noticed how Governor Jefferson neglected the Virignia Militia. Greene gave the governor a chewing-out. I recall him of accusing Jefferson of rendering his men ‘naked’. An exaggeration of course. But the uniforms were ratty patchwork.