And I don't accept homework assignments any more, not since I wised up, anyway, to that particular eye-gouging technique. Read the essay, though, and it was interesting in the degree to which it diverged tonally from the quoted passages from his Pulitzer-winner of 1991, in which he sounds like a pretty full participant in what he now seems to be preparing to call a major historiographical stumble by post-Vietnam historians.
I suspect he is a liberal who feels challenged by George W. Bush's vision and is scrambling to answer and compete in terms and themes he knows from his training the People are responding to in Bush's ideational platform.
Why don't you do it because you know it's the right thing to do?
"And I don't accept homework assignments any more, not since I wised up, anyway, to that particular eye-gouging technique."
I see no evidence you have "wised up." Unless, of course, "wised up" means becoming increasing strident and vulgar.
"I suspect [Gordon S. Wood] is a liberal who feels challenged by George W. Bush's vision and is scrambling to answer and compete in terms and themes he knows from his training the People are responding to in Bush's ideational platform."
I suspect you don't know very much about Gordon S. Wood.