{"id":3259,"date":"2012-11-06T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:02:20","slug":"brave-companions-portraits-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3259","title":{"rendered":"Brave Companions: Portraits In History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brave Companions: Portraits In History<\/a><\/em> (1992) David McCullough<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Brave<\/a>This collection of essays move forward in American history, as David McCullough writes about everyone from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Emily Roebling to the city of Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Perhaps oddly, it is the last essay (the one that reads like a graduation speech) that I liked the best. For in it, he writes first of the tremendous changes that have occurred since 1936:<\/p>\n

Real progress has been made, in much of everyday life. Anyone who doubts this need only imagine–or recall–a visit to a 1930’s dentist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is one of the things I try to remember when technology and the modern world become frustrating: It is so much better to be living in the future.<\/p>\n

But more important he writes of the importance of history:<\/p>\n

Imagine a man who professes over and over his unending love for a woman but who knows nothing of where she was born or who her parents were or where she went to school or what her life had been until he<\/em> came along–and furthermore, doesn’t care to learn. What would you think of such a person? Yet we appear to have an unending supply of patriots who know nothing of the history of this country, nor are they interested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That. That right there is why I read about history.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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