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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
But this results in the delightful prospect of several months of talking about President Tyler, Henry Clay, and the last time a major American Party committed political suicide, in part by holding up the Supreme Court nominations of the guy it made President. Anything that results in a discussion of obscure antebellum history can't be all bad. Or in which the Republicans take as their hero a sectionalist faction of a doomed political party.
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Apro ... uh, speaking of the antebellum era, I just read (finally)
The Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson upon the recommendation of Ta-Nehisi Coates in one of his articles or Tweets or something. Good read on the lead-up to the war and the war itself.
