Word: historians
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Keeping the faith is one way descendants, particularly the older ones, so mindfully tend ancestral memories. "Preserving our heritage helps us hold on to cherished values and pass them on to future generations," said the FDA's official historian, Judith MacKnight Jones, 71. She has chronicled the Confederate immigration to Brazil in a book titled Soldado Descansa (Soldier Rest). With a certainty that transcends national labels, she adds, "And that's important in a world where values are changing for the worse...
Americans, it may be, now need a leader to give them a sense of their coherence and their role in the world. "In those rare moments when the American people feel that the direction of their country is going to affect their private lives," says the historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin, "they are engaged at a far deeper level." They need to reinvent themselves once again on a planet that has enormously changed in just a few years...
Mussolini once remarked, "It is not impossible to govern the Italians, it is merely useless." It is not impossible to lead Americans as a nation. It is just that the Founding Fathers did not think it was a particularly good idea. Says Historian James MacGregor Burns: "Leadership itself is one of the most mentioned and least understood processes in the American system. What we have in this country is an antileadership system bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers because they feared overly strong Government. It is quite ironic that we end this bicentennial year with a dramatic example...
...military historian who had never seen combat, John Keegan distinguished - himself a decade ago by writing The Face of Battle, a vivid triptych on three epic British battles that had all taken place within about 100 miles of one another: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). Keegan ignored many considerations of high strategy and concentrated instead on what the ordinary soldiers had encountered through the centuries: the recurring experience of pain, noise, terror, courage, exhaustion...
...Journalist Tom Wolfe' s first novel satirizes the New York style. -- Historian John Keegan analyzes military commanders...