Friday, February 18, 2005
Book Recommendation
A few years ago, the wife and I went to an exhibition at the Gene Autry Museum, now known simply as the Museum of the American West. (Never mind that the singing cowboy's money paid for the darn thing, political correctness must be served) Anyway, the exibition was a history of the California Gold Rush.
I paid the extra bucks for the "audio guide" and ended up listening to a little less than two minutes of it. According to that guide the history of the gold rush was not, say, funding the North in the Civil War, no it was the oppression of the Chinese and the rape of the land. The guide had nothing good to say about anything!
It's very good to know that someone out there is still writing decent history books.
I paid the extra bucks for the "audio guide" and ended up listening to a little less than two minutes of it. According to that guide the history of the gold rush was not, say, funding the North in the Civil War, no it was the oppression of the Chinese and the rape of the land. The guide had nothing good to say about anything!
It's very good to know that someone out there is still writing decent history books.
