Comments on: A Final Note on “Don’t Know Much About History”

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:11:23 +0000

I bought that one years ago, before returning it 2 days later. Only book I’ve ever returned, and I was glad to be rid of it.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:14:04 +0000

Whatever Hoover was, he was not an idiot. He had a very real appreciation of the buttered side of the bread. For a good (even if tangential) background into Hoover’s social and political era, read John Barry’s book “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America”

By: dearieme

dearieme — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:34:46 +0000

My impression is that American histories tend not only to have a left-wing bias, but also a pro-Federal Government bias. That is to say, change is often discussed in terms of Federal policies, when often they might be irrelevant, or perhaps minor responses to change. An example would be Civil Rights, which is surely a tale of social change “from below”.