DADDY LONG LEGS – Watcher of Weasels

April 12, 2021

America’s Fabian revolution: Prelude to a Second American Revolution

June 13, 2019 Bookworm Comments Off

We are in the 7th decade of a slo-mo socialist revolution in America, but there are signs it will be followed by a successful Second American Revolution. One of my favorite books is Daddy-Long-Legs, an epistolary novel that Jean Webster wrote in 1912. The letter writer is Judy Abbott, a [Read More]

Ulysses S. Grant: What makes a consequential president?

December 19, 2017 Bookworm Comments Off

Fifty years of school histories have lied about Ulysses S. Grant, who was a gifted man and consequential president. Not being a career politician helped. I’m reading Ron Chernow’s Grant. As I only started the book this morning, and have been reading in tiny bits and bytes, I’m only 3% [Read More]