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12-18-2012, 07:44 PM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2012 07:49 PM by Rob Wick.)
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Quote:American history is written mostly by intellectual snobs and leftists.

Well, as a leftist and one who fancies himself a writer (and one who has often been accused of snobbery) I can't agree with this, at least not in the spirit it seems intended. For every Eric Foner or Howard Zinn, there is an Allen Guelzo or Harry Jaffa. Allan Nevins was a Democrat, but he was a strong pro-business historian, writing a glowing history of John D. Rockefeller.

As for Grant, as I said in another thread, the fortunes of any president rise and fall with the times. When the Dunning School held sway, Andrew Johnson was rehabilitated, although not very successfully. I imagine there might even come a time when some think George W. Bush did a good job, although history won't be as kind to him as it likely will be to his father.

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