<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>S&K's work has serious issues due to its reliance on alleged saviors, lost opportunties, etc., rather than an emphasis on long-term structural forces. However, the "fog" referred to at the end of the article is exactly that of Cold War liberalism or liberal anti-communism, which apparently remains part of the credentials of the historical profession that has been so kind to Wilentz.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>DG</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2"
face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C. G. Estabrook <carl@newsfromneptune.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> sf-core <sf-core@yahoogroups.com>; ocCUpy <occupyCU@lists.chambana.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 3, 2013 2:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Peace-discuss] Why the history is untold<br> </font> </div> <br>Chomsky has remarked that when he did mathematics, mathematicians wanted to know if he got the right answer: when he did history, historians wanted to know where he'd got his history
PhD…<br><br>The point is illustrated by the following sophomoric hatchet-job by an establishment historian on Stone & Kuznick's (not unassailable) "The Untold History of the United States":<br><br><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/oliver-stone-cherry-picking-our-history/?pagination=false" target="_blank">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/21/oliver-stone-cherry-picking-our-history/?pagination=false</a><br><br>--CGE<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>