David H. Montgomery Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David H. Montgomery

@daniel_borup I own but haven't read David and Jeanne Heidler's "Henry Clay: The Essential American," which is well-regarded. I have read & enjoyed @hwbrands' "Heirs of the Founders," a history of the era of Clay, Calhoun & Webster.

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Certain of my followers might be interested in this book, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929" — which @CornellPress is making free to read in ebook form for a month: https://t.co/KWr5zECLty

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@FreeSoilAndrew @AquillaLeon @AviWoolf @pstein4 Read Joanne Freeman's "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War." A fascinating look at the role antebellum dueling culture played in Congress as sectional tensions rose in the lead-up to the Civil War.

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@inkybrained Does David Hackett Fischer's "The Great Wave" have any weight in contemporary economic history?

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Summary from James W. Trent, Jr., in “The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform”

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@M_E_Hoffman Thanks! You’ll find my feed is studded with little quotes like that the past day (and for a while before) as I read first Mazower and now St. Clair’s “That Greece Might Still Be Free” — so many parallels!

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Jules Verne's "Michael Strogoff" characters Harry Blount and Alcide Jolivet nod in recognition. https://t.co/tC9XU3znfN

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@AviWoolf Have you read Disraeli's novel "Coningsby"? I don't see you having mentioned the title in the past.

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In 2028, the Declaration of Independence will be just as old to us as Martin Luther's 95 Theses were to the signers of the Declaration.

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This was the famous quote that French prime minister François Guizot said in 1840 — "Get rich through hard work and thriftiness" — to people objecting to France's electoral system that limited political power to those with sufficient wealth. Not an exact parallel, but still.