tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post3599346622014941515..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: Department of Snark: Or; Who Put A Tack On Gordon Wood's Chair?Tenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-34624557020568576682012-04-27T21:13:38.536-05:002012-04-27T21:13:38.536-05:00hello i like a lot your blog, has very good inform...hello i like a lot your blog, has very good information about cars. thanks by sharing this informationprice per headhttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/betting-software-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-8084924484067143482012-04-23T02:51:18.531-05:002012-04-23T02:51:18.531-05:00share is valuable. Such a good article, it is not ...share is valuable. Such a good article, it is not surprising to have so many loyal readers . I very much enjoy your articles , they bearLogo Designhttp://www.brandedlogodesigns.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-80511207298714991102012-04-04T05:03:27.648-05:002012-04-04T05:03:27.648-05:00Thank you for sharing this! Just what I’ve been se...Thank you for sharing this! Just what I’ve been searching for. Great info!Ready-Made Logohttp://www.logodesignuniverse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-78877517187077900812012-03-19T02:18:30.939-05:002012-03-19T02:18:30.939-05:00Hey Great Comments on this blog. And the Informati...Hey Great Comments on this blog. And the Information is also Great. Thanks, for a really nice read.Search Engine Optimization Solutionhttp://www.ebrandster.com/search-engine-optimization.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-75419464995047907872011-01-24T09:48:37.058-05:002011-01-24T09:48:37.058-05:00While I had read with interest Gordon Wood's r...While I had read with interest Gordon Wood's review in the NYR, I have not, as yet, read Jill Lepore's The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle Over American History. That being said, while I can appreciate your pique at Prof. Wood's harsh denunciation, your own blog follows in the same vein by appearing to be excessively aggressive. Instead of posing thoughtful questions and commentary that explores consideration of why Wood, a highly respected and well-read Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, would chose to excoriate the book in a manner that is unlike his trademarked careful and engaging scholarship. You decry the polemics, then proceed to engage in them yourself. <br /><br />I, too, would like a better understanding of the Tea Party movement, but any historical context in which they see themselves and in which other see them are predicated on whose historical interpretations they are using. Like all polemicists who use "historical facts," they pick and choose which "facts" they want to justify their beliefs. Unless Lepore, Wood or any other historians looking to delve into this thorny issue actually sit down and talk at length with Tea Partiers about what their take on history is, then all "scholarship" on the subject is mere collective speculation. That moots Lepore's examination, Wood's diatribe and your own outraged response.J.J. Ferreira, Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08219556876764285765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-8319399613615803202011-01-24T09:02:42.322-05:002011-01-24T09:02:42.322-05:00Thanks to Gordon Wood, I'll have to buy this b...Thanks to Gordon Wood, I'll have to buy this book even though I'm not an historian of the 18th century. We appreciate your taking him to task for letting his "green" show.Kelly in Kansashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345236866213138914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-82430679326383974442011-01-17T15:03:37.106-05:002011-01-17T15:03:37.106-05:00I have to say that it's interesting to me that...I have to say that it's interesting to me that this post has attracted so few comments. I was criticized for calling a dead guy a not-nice name, but you really let a living, prominent historian have it here, and you get almost no comments at all, and none that disagree with your perspective?<br /><br />It sure looks to me like historians are major wimps! (Either that, or Gordon Wood is a lot less well regarded than Lawrence Stone.)Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-44437291594089600732011-01-16T17:04:12.459-05:002011-01-16T17:04:12.459-05:00Wood's review is one of the most racist and s...Wood's review is one of the most racist and sexist I have seen in recent memory (darn those emotional black people and un-scientific women who need to be softened!). But what do you expect from someone who ignores all scholarship on non-white men and believes, as he wrote in his Radicalism book, the Revolution made possible "all our current egalitarian thinking". <br /><br />I think he proves Lepore's point: don't mess with his Founding Fathers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-71006956978933639912011-01-15T22:36:27.425-05:002011-01-15T22:36:27.425-05:00Your comment 'It's a bit like saying to a ...Your comment 'It's a bit like saying to a religion scholar, "You know, God is no piker."' left me gasping with laughter.<br /><br />Now I wish I was a bit more widely read in American history so I could appreciate more of the nuances. As it is, your post's inspired me to search out Lepore and give her book a read1Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093558563358431804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-12377843503491376542011-01-15T21:50:29.949-05:002011-01-15T21:50:29.949-05:00Wow, TR: you haz stones!
Wood's review just...Wow, TR: you haz stones! <br /><br />Wood's review just seems like so much undigested envy of Lepore, which is pretty unbecoming in a person a full generation her senior. <br /><br />Just, wow.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-52643839414848439222011-01-15T19:04:49.297-05:002011-01-15T19:04:49.297-05:00I read Woods' review, but haven't read Lep...I read Woods' review, but haven't read Lepore's book. (Although I did read her New Yorker piece about the Tea Party which I think covers some of the ideas she expands upon in the book). <br /><br />You hit the nail on the head with the condescending sexism. As though women historians never graduate from being "promising" grad students, who still need to be smacked down by the menfolk.Katrinahttp://www.katrinagulliver.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-55697414727647869352011-01-15T18:30:36.795-05:002011-01-15T18:30:36.795-05:00At a certain point in my academic career, I took a...At a certain point in my academic career, I took a course that included famous-asse bookes by Bailyn and Wood. Allz I remember is that both their writing was so fucken pompous and turgid that I couldn't even read the shitte.<br /><br />Getting back to the tea partiers, one of the things I find so fucken annoying about them intellectually is the notion that the "Founding Fathers" had some unified view of what they were doing and what the documents and institutions they founded intended. This kind of obtuse and bankrupt intentionalism is also manifest in the "originalist" jurisprudence of assholes like Scalia. Whose original intent are we supposed to be hewing to? Constitutional texts had many authors with diverse motivations/interpretations and many ratifiers with diverse motivations/interpretations. This seems so self-evident and so destructive to the "originalist" program, that I cannot believe that anyone could with a straight face even make such an argument.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com