Merry's Big Books
A topic I recently raised in Clark County, Washington: "What can you just say about Robert W. Merry, the mysterious doyen of American crypto-conservatism hitherto unknown to Washington journalism?"
My answer was this:
There are two important books by "Merry", *A Country of Vast Designs* about James K. Polk and *McKinley: Architect of the American Century*.
Polk was actually a Whig and McKinley a Republican, but the distance between two ought not to be reckoned great: the Republicans were arguably a "successor" party to the Whigs purified of the influence of people like Henry Clay.
I have never been a Republican; I never even vote for Republican candidates. Still, if you want America you must cope with its historical tradition and people "distasteful" to you who are part of it. (Ardent Democrats ought to remember there is not a "standard of excellence" associated with joining the Democratic Party, if you will.)
I can find fault with neither of these two men on account of the "models" they offered to later Americans and what they chose to, or had to, do. Polk was associated with the real "opening of the American West", a phrase which not ought to hold terrorsfor those familiar with what the Louisiana Purchase buys you.
It is very arguable that there would have been no Abraham Lincoln without James K. Polk, as Lincoln's early years in Illinois and Illinois politics. Similarly, if McKinley was not quite the "architect of American empire" that Roosevelt was he wassomething of a model for even how a man of wealth and distinction could have (almost) "Just One Wife".
Could be said.
Jeff Rubard
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 12:03:37 PM UTC-7, jeffr...@gmail.com wrote:
Merry's Big Books
A topic I recently raised in Clark County, Washington: "What can you just say about Robert W. Merry, the mysterious doyen of American crypto-conservatism hitherto unknown to Washington journalism?"
My answer was this:
There are two important books by "Merry", *A Country of Vast Designs* about James K. Polk and *McKinley: Architect of the American Century*.
Polk was actually a Whig and McKinley a Republican, but the distance between two ought not to be reckoned great: the Republicans were arguably a "successor" party to the Whigs purified of the influence of people like Henry Clay.
"standard of excellence" associated with joining the Democratic Party, if you will.)I have never been a Republican; I never even vote for Republican candidates. Still, if you want America you must cope with its historical tradition and people "distasteful" to you who are part of it. (Ardent Democrats ought to remember there is not a
terrors for those familiar with what the Louisiana Purchase buys you.I can find fault with neither of these two men on account of the "models" they offered to later Americans and what they chose to, or had to, do. Polk was associated with the real "opening of the American West", a phrase which not ought to hold
something of a model for even how a man of wealth and distinction could have (almost) "Just One Wife".It is very arguable that there would have been no Abraham Lincoln without James K. Polk, as Lincoln's early years in Illinois and Illinois politics. Similarly, if McKinley was not quite the "architect of American empire" that Roosevelt was he was
Could be said.Yeah, no, nobody in Washington state ever heard of a real person named "Robert W. Merry". (They still care a bit, too.)
Jeff Rubard
I do look a bit like the guy.
Jeffrey Rubard
On Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 10:42:08 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 12:03:37 PM UTC-7, jeffr...@gmail.com wrote:
Merry's Big Books
A topic I recently raised in Clark County, Washington: "What can you just say about Robert W. Merry, the mysterious doyen of American crypto-conservatism hitherto unknown to Washington journalism?"
My answer was this:
There are two important books by "Merry", *A Country of Vast Designs* about James K. Polk and *McKinley: Architect of the American Century*.
Polk was actually a Whig and McKinley a Republican, but the distance between two ought not to be reckoned great: the Republicans were arguably a "successor" party to the Whigs purified of the influence of people like Henry Clay.
a "standard of excellence" associated with joining the Democratic Party, if you will.)I have never been a Republican; I never even vote for Republican candidates. Still, if you want America you must cope with its historical tradition and people "distasteful" to you who are part of it. (Ardent Democrats ought to remember there is not
terrors for those familiar with what the Louisiana Purchase buys you.I can find fault with neither of these two men on account of the "models" they offered to later Americans and what they chose to, or had to, do. Polk was associated with the real "opening of the American West", a phrase which not ought to hold
something of a model for even how a man of wealth and distinction could have (almost) "Just One Wife".It is very arguable that there would have been no Abraham Lincoln without James K. Polk, as Lincoln's early years in Illinois and Illinois politics. Similarly, if McKinley was not quite the "architect of American empire" that Roosevelt was he was
Could be said.Yeah, no, nobody in Washington state ever heard of a real person named "Robert W. Merry". (They still care a bit, too.)
Jeff Rubard
I do look a bit like the guy.
Jeffrey RubardIn other words, 'to all appearances' images of Robert W. Merry were derived mechanically from my literal face. Etc.
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