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Markey James developed an early interest in history and read Froissart's Chronicles in Enid's one-room public library. He also studied up on the lives of U.S. Presidents. "My favorites were George Washington (though he seemed too good to be true), Andrew Jackson (for his refusal to clean the British officer's boots), Abraham Lincoln (he was such a good wrestler), and Andrew Johnson (the runaway apprentice)." But the profession that enthralled him longest-more even than stagecoach driver or railroadman or lawyer-was that of printer...
...Baldwin explained that his own reading of history had begun with Froissart, going on to Scott, Macaulay, Froude, Carlyle, Clarendon. He dwelt upon the opportunity for some historian to deal with the American Revolution from the viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite...
...Chronicles," Sir John Froissart...
...Froissart relates a story that shows the hero of it to have certainly been very powerful, and it would be difficult to find a man of the present who could execute a similiar act, though I have no doubt he could be found. The story is as follows...
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