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Category Archives: Books Publishing and Writing
Notes on “The True History of the American Revolution”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: If, like me, you’ve always had a hard time squaring the narrative of the American Revolution with the requirements of common sense, you might get something out of Sydney George Fisher’s “The True History of the … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour: The Most Useless and Unproductive of All Forms of Reflection
Blowhard, Esq. writes: It is the natural result of the whig historian’s habits of mind and his attitude to history — though it is not a necessary consequence of his actual method — that he should be interested in the promulgation … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged Herbert Butterfield, history, progressives, Whigs
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Quote Du Jour: Usage Which is Reasonable Generates Usage Which is Unreasonable
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The usages which a particular community is found to have adopted in its infancy and in its primitive seats are generally those which are on the whole best suited to promote its physical and moral well-being; and, if … Continue reading
Book Notes: “A Disease in the Public Mind”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: All of the brouhaha over Confederate statues has rekindled my interest in the Civil War, so I decided to work my way through some of the books that have been cluttering my shelves. The first one is this … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History, Politics and Economics
Tagged Civil War, Confederate statues, fake news, John Brown
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A Bit of a Sea-Dandy
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: As I passed the wake of the steamer, I wheeled in pursuit, fired a blank cartridge, and hauling down the Federal, threw the Confederate flag to the breeze. It was amusing to witness the panic which … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged Civil War, Game, Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes
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Book Notes: “Vanishing New York”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Jeremiah Moss, sole proprietor of the Vanishing New York blog since 2007, tells the history of New York City over the last 20+ years in terms of, what he calls, “hyper-gentrification.” Hyper-gentrification is “gentrification on speed, shot up … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged gentrification, Jeremiah Moss, New York
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Juxtaposin’: Iconoclasm
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: You, therefore, have not ordered the temples to be shut up, nor forbidden any to frequent them: nor have you driven from the temples or the altars, fire or frankincense, or other honours of incense. But … Continue reading
Juxtaposin’: Diversity
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: — United Auto Workers, 1946 Groups of idle sailors lay about the decks, “overhauling a range of their memories;” how they had spent the last Christmas-day, in some “Wapping,” or “Wide Water street,” with the brimming … Continue reading
We Will Make a Little America of This Island!
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Cyrus Harding and his companions remained an hour at the top of the mountain. The island was displayed under their eyes, like a plan in relief with different tints, green for the forests, yellow for the … Continue reading
Naked Lady of the Week: LeRoy Neiman’s Femlin
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I got to thinking about the Femlin after reading this excellent post at Bandsiusetalike.com about the virtues of ’70s-era Playboy and the culture that created it. The Femlin was the creation of LeRoy Neiman; presumably the … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Commercial art, Humor, Sex, The Good Life
Tagged Femlin, LeRoy Neiman, naked lady of the week, Playboy
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