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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I was at the commemoration. It was to say the least a very uncomfortable time. She barely mentioned Lincoln or Gettysburg, but talked almost exclusively about her other three books. It was JFK and LBJ who were the movers of the modern civil rights movement. The only reason the republicans and Everret Dirkson went along was because LBJ bribed him with political perks. She talked about how she and Hillary Clinton went looking around the white house at 2 am looking to find the room that Winston Churchill slept in. Barely a word about Gettysburg, barely a word about Lincoln. At the end of it there was a smattering of applause. I sat on my hands as did the person next to me. I asked him what he thought of the speech and he said one word “obnoxious”. Then he added. I guess according to her, only democrats do good things for the country.
More than likely the National Park Service invited her. There’s a video on C-Span that has a backdrop on the stage with logos of the Gettysburg Foundation, and the National Park Service. The lectern has the Park Service sign on it.
Not to toot my own horn, but I met Trudeau several years ago. He was doing research for a book on the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He’d heard I had done extensive research on the unit. I provided him unlimited access to my records, and in return, he gave me a very nice acknowledgement in the book: “Voices of the 55th,” and had the publisher send me several copies. I’ve shared my research with a few other authors over the years. It’s a good way to get an acknowledgement in the book, and an autographed copy to boot.
I’ve enjoyed both his book on Gettysburg as well as his book on Sheman’s campaign through Georgia. I’ll have to look up his book on the 55th.
The author is Gordon C Rhea. He wrote “The Battle of The Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864” it was published in 1994.
Until I read the book, I knew little about the Battle of the Wilderness. Rhea’s book was top notch. Incredibly detailed and yet it never seemed to bog down in minutiae.
Can you image what Shelby Foote would have said after her speech.
If you liked Rhea’s work on the battle of the Wilderness then you’d love his book on Spottsylvania Courthouse, the very next battle. I thought it was even better although both are excellent.
Oooh. I would have run for cover :-) No, I'm sure he would have been a complete gentleman about it, no matter how much he was seething inside ... maybe along the lines of "well, bless her heart," or something.
I never read Morris’ first volume. I thought volume 2 was great and volume 3 will allow you to see what a full blown progressive and global interventionist TR had become. Vol 3 highlights his hatred of Wilson and Wilson’s hatred of TR. But the two were peas in the same pod, though Wilson ascribed his fascist ideas to his idealistic visions while TR was less visionary and more pragmatic. Both men were clear precursors of Fascism. And one thing that must be emphasized, and the cover art of Jonah Goldberg’s great work failed to do this, is separate fascism from Nazism. If we can do that, we can clearly point to the fascistic goals of progressives then and now and not be sidetracked by complaints that we are equating Democrats with death camps.
If I was given a subject to write a paper on or give a speech about in college and instead went on a bunch of personal, social and political tangents while barely mentioning my subject I would get a massive F for that assignment and probably get dressed down by my professor.
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