[Vision2020] Black and Tan Your Hide - Doug's at it again

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
 
For those souls breathlessly waiting for the release of Doug Wilson's  latest 
attempt at southern history, he writes:
 
"But lest there be no accountability at all, I submitted the manuscript of  
my forthcoming book on this vexed historical question to one of the top  
historians in the country, and he gave the book the mother of all blurbs."
 _http://dougwils.com/_ (http://dougwils.com/)    5-30-05
 
Presumably, he refers to Eugene Genovese.  I don't know what the  mother of 
all blurbs would be, but for a recent critical look at the work of  Genovese 
follow the link below.
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue23/lichte23.htm
Right Church, Wrong Pew: Eugene Genovese & Southern  Conservatism, Alex 
Lichtenstein [from New Politics, vol. 6, no. 3  (new series), whole no. 23, Summer 
1997]
 
The article is great reading. For example:
 
"Ultimately, however, in attempting to chart a third way between the free  
market conservatism of today's ascendent right and a discredited collectivism of 
 the left, Genovese finds inspiration now in a Southern tradition associated 
with  slavery and racism, rather than the socialist tradition compromised by  
Stalinism."
 
All I can say is,  haul up the battle flag boys, get on your feet,  they're 
playing Dixie and look,  Gene Genovese's leading the parade.
 
Rose Huskey
 
"One cannot  level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are 
just too many  of them. But you can do something, and the difference between 
doing something  and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan


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