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To: KonKilo who wrote (128115)	1/6/2010 11:15:52 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542251

I've thought for sometime now that our present national political discourse resembles the late 1850s. Ditto here. One of the reasons I started rereading Shelby Foote. The other is that Josh Marshall has started for the same reason. The only problem with that is that Foote starts with Sumter so the growing intensity of the 1850 debates is part of the heavy past. Thus, I've been thinking I might pick up a copy of McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom and read the first several chapters. They cover much of the 1850s and McPherson is one of the best historians of the civil war period around. Another point on that note. When I revisit with my high school classmates in central Texas, I'm beginning to pick up on these kinds of vibes. Definitely not there when I started doing so in 03.