http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/an_excerpt_from/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/an_excerpt_from/comment-page-1/#comment-14504 Charles Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:05:25 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/10/an_excerpt_from_the_new_american_militarism/#comment-14504 As someone who is (also) a Vietnam veteran, a former Army officer and a conservative, I tended to agree with many of the views of the author on modern trends. Only at the end did I find what musicians called "a clinker" (a note that doesn't belong in the score)in a portion of the text not about modern history. The author refers to George Washington as a "soldier of surpassing greatness..." Contemporary accounts differ. Many of his countrymen thought Washington incompetent as a general. I suggest the author might want to read American Aurora by Rosenfeld for a contrary view of Washington's generalship. As someone who is (also) a Vietnam veteran, a former Army officer and a conservative, I tended to agree with many of the views of the author on modern trends. Only at the end did I find what musicians called “a clinker” (a note that doesn’t belong in the score)in a portion of the text not about modern history. The author refers to George Washington as a “soldier of surpassing greatness…” Contemporary accounts differ. Many of his countrymen thought Washington incompetent as a general. I suggest the author might want to read American Aurora by Rosenfeld for a contrary view of Washington’s generalship.

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