{"id":3175,"date":"2010-04-12T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T06:01:46","slug":"a-new-history-lesson-post-madison-pre-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"A New History Lesson &#8211; Post Madison \/ Pre Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20New%20History%20Lesson%20-%20Post%20Madison%20%2F%20Pre%20Civil%20War\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Since reading the wonderful Ron Chernow&#8217;s wonderful book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow\/dp\/1594200092\">Hamilton<\/a>&#8221; (a must read), and a history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Panic-1907-Lessons-Learned-Markets\/dp\/047015263X\">the panic of 1907<\/a> that makes some of the ideas of returning to the gold standard look stunningly foolish, I&#8217;ve taken a bit of a sabbatical from history. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve returned to the fold. <\/p>\n<p>After seeing the mediocre rehash of Clash of the Titans, Greg and I went to the local Borders to browse and maybe find a new read. There are not a lot of interesting books out that I&#8217;m aware of, but I happened upon a book that peaked my interest immediately. It&#8217;s called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0XIvPDF9ijcC&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;dq=What+Hath+God+Wrought&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=0e9ufiQZ0J&#038;sig=XM6ItgRIlZgDOE64uNieSo7PTK0&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=orDCS9WDBNH-nAf3-6D5CQ&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=4&#038;ved=0CB4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">What Hath God Wrought<\/a>&#8220;. It examines the period between 1815 and 1848. You might be thinking &#8220;Besides Andrew Jackson, what is there of any great interest in this period&#8221;? Well, for me, that is the point. You see, as much as I love reading about the popular figures in American history &#8211; Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton etc., I do find an appeal for the forgotten figures and pieces of our history.  I&#8217;ve not read any of the book yet, but just from the reviews it seems that one of the figures that may be getting his due in the book is John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams. I&#8217;ve read in several books that,under the tutelage of his famous father, and as a long serving diplomat, he was perhaps the best prepared of Presidents up to that time, maybe of any President.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said, I&#8217;ve not read any of the book, but I will no doubt enjoy this thing, and savor the impending analysis of the new things I&#8217;m going to learn, and reflect on any lessons it might contain that is pertinent to the world we live in today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20New%20History%20Lesson%20-%20Post%20Madison%20%2F%20Pre%20Civil%20War\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Since reading the wonderful Ron Chernow&#8217;s wonderful book, &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; (a must read), and a history of the panic of 1907 that makes some of the ideas of returning to the gold standard look stunningly foolish, I&#8217;ve taken a bit of a sabbatical from history. Well, I&#8217;ve returned to the fold. After seeing the mediocre rehash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}