I am sorely tempted...
10 o'clock, August 26, 2004
...to check into an Ivy League PhD program in American History for five or ten years, solely in order to learn enough to be able to write this book:
Glaukon: I've often wanted to read a history of the early years of the United States as if the U.S. was a developing country during the Cold War. Domestic factions allied with Britain and France, which will recognize no neutrals. George Washington throwing all his prestige and virtu on the side of neutrality in the Farewell Address, pleading with his countrymen not to fall into this trap . . .
The Ghost of Daniel Webster: And being completely ignored . . .
Thrasymakhos: As some chose France, and others chose Britain. The Alien and Sedition Acts, beginning the process of imprisoning people for political dissent . . .
There would be denunciations. There would probably be death threats. But it would be a hell of a book.
You *have* read _For Want of a Nail_ by Robert Sobel?