Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.6 – “Only Bigots and Liberals!”

    For anyone interested, this is the sixth installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner.  Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.5 – Douglass Decimates Obamacare

    For anyone interested, this is the fifth installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner.  Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.4 – “a tonic like no other”

    For anyone interested, this is the fourth installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner.  Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.3 – “Slavery was a State of War”

    For anyone interested, this is the third installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner.  Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.2 – “I had better things to do than be angry.”

    For anyone interested, this is the second installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner. Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1.1 – Evolving Expectations…?

    For anyone interested, this is the first installment of a little self-educational, comparative study of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Clarence Thomas in their own words perhaps inappropriately posted under the Book Notes banner.  Please refer back to my Preface diary for a little more background (1). While obviously amateurish in nature, we’ll see where this one time experiment takes me/us and hopefully the | Read More »

    Remedial Book Notes: Volume 1- Primary American Character

    PREFACE Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. (1) While fully acknowledging the perhaps inappropriate usurpation of the Book Notes franchise here at Redstate, my intention over the next several months is to tackle a somewhat ambitious exercise (for me, anyway) and self-educational experience through a comparative evaluation of three distinguished men | Read More »