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Stumpage Reports
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 :::
I've been so busy the last couple weeks I haven't had time to turn on my television. Last night I turned it on and realized I hadn't missed a goddamn thing.
I finished reading The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe, 1944-1945
. Like all the other "untold" stories of WWII books that have been coming out lately, I knew all about this story. It's about the forced marches of the Allied POW's when the Nazi's evacuated them from camps in eastern Europe as the Russians advanced. I did learn a few things from it though. Mostly about how strained Russian and American relations were in the closing days of the war.
I've set up an ambitious reading program for myself. Maybe if I say it out loud here I will actually do it. I have not heard back yet on my Confederate monument article I sent off, so in preparation for: 1. Probably having to rewrite the damn thing and/or 2. Writing about some other cool stuff I found at work, I really need to catch up on my New South history. I never took a class in it.
So I just started C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South 1877-1913. Every decent book on the New South written since that one was published (1951) has been an answer or an expansion of it. After that comes The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers. That one came out in 1993 and is the next thing you read after Woodward. I started reading it once, it was good but I got busy with something else and had to put it down.
Then I have to find out what the basic text is on Southern Progressivism is, and after that read William Link's The Paradox of Southern Progessivism, 1880-1930. I could barely understand the jacket blurb on that last one.
After having said all that, I have to admit the Woodward book is starting out pretty dull. Almost as dull as this post? Somewhere in there I need to work in his book The Burden of Southern History. We'll see if I can really read all this shit.
::: posted by tom at 7:52 AM
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