HISTORY

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but […]

INCOMPLETE 6-10-12 This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY

“John Adams evoked in me a deep sense of loss for the ideals for which — against all odds — they fought. This feeling of loss resonated for me; it was one I felt for years about many of the promises of my generation, those born at the end of and after the Second World […]

FROM AMERICAN STORY: I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but with a sudden, renewed interest. As I read my way haphazardly through American (and occasionally world) history, […]

But what I see (early 2012) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in nonviolent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]

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In AMERICAN STORY I credit David McCullough’s book John Adams with triggering my exploration into history (and about American history, this was true), but some years before that I picked up William Manchester’s book on Winston Churchill’s life: “The Last Lion.” By the time I finished reading the introduction (quoted below) I was hooked and […]

“The law had been after Brian (as they had been after Mick and Keith). He was arrested in May 1966 for possession of drugs shortly after the first raid on Keith’s country home, Redlands. In October 1967, Brian was sentenced to nine months in prison. They released him pending an appeal. In May, he was […]

The video is from Terence Malick’s extraordinary film. “I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but with a sudden, renewed interest. As I read my way haphazardly through […]

Stanley, in my opinion, wrote a book bigger than his subject. It is a book — The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones  (Apple/Amazon/B&N) — that I have read many times and never does it fail to impress.  It is a monumental effort but not– and this irritates some–simple.  So be it. Great requires a […]