August 6, 2004

Politicians and War; the Myth of Dancing Elephants

Among my fellow academic historians, many of whom have been the loudest in denouncing the current presidential administration's actions, American political history has become an object of scorn. Eager to celebrate the "agency" of those without formal governmental power, they denigrate the significance of past public policies, deny that everyday Americans paid serious attention to politics, and deride historical analysis of the actions of governmental officeholders as decidedly old hat,

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