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Zoo_View said:
He’s so manly and tough!
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Greg Blowvino has a certain...quality to him. A certain something that he hides from the public. Maybe it's his impeccable, neat outfit, his perfectly-coiffed hair with just the right amount of gel to keep it spiky on top, his cartoonishly high voice. I'm not exactly sure, but he seems to want to keep this certain...something...tucked away from public view, maybe in a nearby closet perhaps.
 
WaynetheDrain said:
Greg Blowvino has a certain...quality to him. A certain something that he hides from the public. Maybe it's his impeccable, neat outfit, his perfectly-coiffed hair with just the right amount of gel to keep it spiky on top, his cartoonishly high voice. I'm not exactly sure, but he seems to want to keep this certain...something...tucked away from public view, maybe in a nearby closet perhaps.
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Channeling his inner Ernst Rohm.
 
superrific said:
To the rescue, how? I guess I'm with Nate Silver -- I find her to be more cringe than insightful.

I don't see anything in that essay that is useful for understanding our current situation. It's an incredibly shallow analysis that doesn't even work on its own terms (Miller is actually rejecting the ideas of the southern racist, in favor of something else that is arguably just as bad but different), and other than putting a name to an idea, what is it telling us?

If you're interested in it just as history alone, that's fine. I mean, I see no reason to think she's *wrong.* She certainly knows that time period far better than I do. I just don't see what "to the rescue" means here -- even allowing that you're obviously not being literal.
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HCR exists to tell bedtime stories to anxious liberals. That’s her role. If someone is actually interested in history, there are dozens of historians in her field who have produced serious, paradigm-changing work. But that kind of history doesn’t make millions on Substack or fit into a Facebook post. Black Reconstruction in America doesn’t soothe anyone before bed.
 
Heather Cox Richardson has a fine list of scholarly publications to her name.

  • To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (2014)
  • Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (2010)
  • West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (2007)
  • “North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy,” in Thomas J. Brown, ed., Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (2006)
  • The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001)
  • The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War(1997)

The Wounded Knee monograph is the best done and her work on the early history of the Republican Party is solid.


Richardson, Heather Cox

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