Showing posts with label the Roaring Twenties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Roaring Twenties. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

A review of Ric Burns’ “New York: A Documentary History”

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“Whereupon the Citty and Fort Amsterdam and Province of the New Netherlands were surrendered under His Most Exct. Mat’s. Obedience, made and...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Warren G. Harding: Popular in life, unpopular in death

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Warren G. Harding is now known as one of the worst presidents in American history . Many today would even consider him the very worst, alth...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Herbert Hoover: More interventionist than he’s remembered

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How much of the blame for the Great Depression belongs to Herbert Hoover? Herbert Hoover had been president for only seven months, when the...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Calvin Coolidge: One of our greatest presidents

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Wikipedia gets the presidency of Calvin Coolidge badly and wildly wrong … Calvin Coolidge may be one of the greatest presidents in America...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

A review of PBS’s “The Perfect Crime” (American Experience)

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Leopold and Loeb had committed the “perfect crime” … or had they? In 1924, one of the most infamous murders in American history was committ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” (PBS)

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“After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the import...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

A review of Ken Burns’ “Jazz” (PBS series)

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"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...