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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Dear Mr. Post-it Notes
Term-paper madness
In just three weeks Mannie can come out and play again.
9 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Just be glad that there are such things as spellcheck and Summer!
Mannie, Good selection of books there. I just picked up 'Revielle in Washington' and have been enjoying reading it. Does Furgurson's 'Freedom Rising' make a good complement to it? Hope you do excellent on the paper. Thanks, Chris
"That tendency of tempered criticism would continue in the efforts of the venerable Margaret Leech Pulitzer in her 1941 Reveille in Washington, a work that remains arguably the single best account of Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Leech’s narrative is a remarkably empathetic treatment of McClellan, beginning with his arrival in Washington “…a hero for a crowd which sorely needed one”, (RIW 108) to his sad, though dignified farewell to his troops fifteen months later. Curiously, the 2004 book; Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War , Ernest B. Furguson’s somewhat redundant re-hash of the Leech classic, abandons the more moderate approach of Leech and with descriptors like “dithering” (FR 141) continues what by 2004, is the norm for McClellan treatments, a scornful rather than investigative tone."
Its like being on "Reading Rainbow"! Thanks for the kind words
WOW!!! I thought I was the only one who used a rainbow of Post-it Note flags to mark passages in all my research books . ;O) Seeing your photo, I now know that I'm not alone or crazy....
9 comments:
Just be glad that there are such things as spellcheck and Summer!
John C. Nicholas
Mannie,
Good selection of books there. I just picked up 'Revielle in Washington' and have been enjoying reading it. Does Furgurson's 'Freedom Rising' make a good complement to it? Hope you do excellent on the paper.
Thanks,
Chris
Dear Prudence,
Can't you come out to play? Dear Prudence, and meet the brand new day. . .
J. Lennon
Chris,
Funny you should ask:
"That tendency of tempered criticism would continue in the efforts of the venerable Margaret Leech Pulitzer in her 1941 Reveille in Washington, a work that remains arguably the single best account of Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Leech’s narrative is a remarkably empathetic treatment of McClellan, beginning with his arrival in Washington “…a hero for a crowd which sorely needed one”, (RIW 108) to his sad, though dignified farewell to his troops fifteen months later. Curiously, the 2004 book; Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War , Ernest B. Furguson’s somewhat redundant re-hash of the Leech classic, abandons the more moderate approach of Leech and with descriptors like “dithering” (FR 141) continues what by 2004, is the norm for McClellan treatments, a scornful rather than investigative tone."
Its like being on "Reading Rainbow"! Thanks for the kind words
Mannie
Mannie,
The good people of the 3M Corporation would like to extend their thanks to you for increasing profits in this current economic recession........
Jeff
Jeff,
Just doing my patriotic bit, one florescent color at a time.
Mannie
Mannie,
Thanks for the info on the books.
Chris
Hey Mannie, are you sure you didn't just stick those post-it notes in the books to impress us? lol
Kevin at Civil War Memory
WOW!!! I thought I was the only one who used a rainbow of Post-it Note flags to mark passages in all my research books . ;O) Seeing your photo, I now know that I'm not alone or crazy....
Good Luck with the paper!!!!! :O)
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