Posted on 07/02/2013 6:44:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
On Sunday, a stunned audience sat in silence as Doris Kearns Goodwin turned the keynote address at the opening ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg into a political lecture focusing on women's and gay rights.
Missing from much of her keynote: Gettysburg.
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Why sit here in an e4cho chamber? I am going to make it a point to call liberals stupid in the middle of a completely irrelevant conversation. Why fight fair?
“Although DKG did write “Team Of Rivals” and yes, she is a historian, I just don’t see her as being the right fit for a presentation like this.”
I remember this incompetant “presidential historian” during the KKKlinton impeachment saying (several times) that even though Andrew Jackson was impeached he was still on the $20 bill. Of course it was Andrew JOHNSON who was impeached.
“A historian of your caliber and THIS is the speech you’re gonna give?!”
As a historian her caliber is equivalent to the 22 velo dog.
That book was about Washington politics during the period of the civil war, not a history of the civil war itself and certainly not about the battle of Gettysburg. Stephen Spears would have made a much better keynote speaker. His the perhaps the most preimmenent historian on the eastern theater of the Civil War.
In what would have been my speech to DKG, the use of the word “caliber” would have been used for flattery only. I am certainly aware of her checkered past. I would not have used the word with any sincerity.
And you're right, they would have done much better by inviting Searss to do the keynote.
Noah Andre Trudeau came out with a book on Gettysburg about the same time as Sears did, and I think his is a little bit better. Regardless, either one would have done a better job than Goodwin.
Noah Andre Trudeau came out with a book on Gettysburg about the same time as Sears did, and I think his is a little bit better. Regardless, either one would have done a better job than Goodwin.
Trudeau's book was excellent especially with regard to the first day. I think it would appeal more to the hard core CW buff though as it is incredibily detailed and the average history fan might find it a bit tedious to slog through. There is another historian named "Rhea" who has an excellent series on the battles which made up Grant's Overland Campaign.
She is *not* a historian. She is a “historical writer”, which basically means “more or less historical fiction”. In addition, she is a known plagiarist and decided radical liberal.
Whoever invited her to speak at the Gettysburg anniversary has Lucky Charms for brains. They might as well have invited “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan or Medea Benjamin of Code Pink.
Why was she invited and who invited her?
She once wrote a book about growing up a Brooklyn Dodgers’s fan living in Rockville Centre NY. Mike Francesca and Mad Dog Russo spent one four hour show highlighting the countless errors, mistake, and misrepresentations they found in a perusing of her work.She has been working on a bio of TR and said she was very surprised and disturbed to find that her progressive hero was a racist and an imperialist. Duuuhhh!
Does somebody still publish her? She's a known plagiarist.
DKG is a plagiarist and Lincoln idolator. The Lincoln idolator part will carry a so called “historian” far in this country.
Speaking of TR, I read the first two volumes of Edmund Morris' massive (one is tempted to say 'definitive') biography of Theodore Roosevelt. I didn't know all that much about TR before reading those volumes. At least I did not know as much as I thought I knew. The first volume (The rise of Theodore Roosevelt) was almost like reading an adventure story, dealing as it did with TR's struggles with poor health, his loss of his first wife and mother on the same day, his adventures in the Dakotas, the Spanish American War, etc. The second volume (Theodore Rex) dealt with his presidency. I was shocked to see how "progressive" TR eventually became. He basically "pulled a Rubio" in switching from conservative principles to progressive ones to the point he may as well have been William Jennings Bryan. I remember thinking as I read it: "thank God TR did not stand for another term". I need to pick up the third volume (Colonel Roosevelt) and read it soon.
Professor DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN was one of the 400 historians and academics that took out a full page add in
the NEW YORK TIMES that said a blow job is not an impeachable offense.
Why anyone with any shame or conscience or honor would listen to anything this b!tch would say is beyond me.
She spent the waning years of the last millennium hitting every news show she could protecting Slick Willie’s Willie.
and, according to Sally Quinn, alleged LBJ dance partner..
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