Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Sanders say there is a path to win the nomination [View all]BidenBacker
(1,089 posts)Never thought about it from that angle too much before but what you write seems credible. I called up your link and will go read it shortly.
As for myself, I tend to mostly stick with more "scholarly" works. Years ago I volunteered for Project Gutenberg...helping them to get free old books and stuff online for people to peruse. Folks would scan whatever they thought was interesting (books, periodicals, magazines, articles, etc) into an electronic file and then volunteers would comb over them page by page to eliminate OCR scanning errors or make format changes.
I learned a lot about history from my volunteer work...old books I never woulda picked out to read in a million years. I used to think newer was better but there is something to be said for older works that were written not too long after the Revolutionary period or the Civil War and not a century or two later. There was in particular one biography about Washington that was really interesting...it sure knocked down Jefferson a few notches in my eyes from what I saw on the pages that I personally edited.
There may be some stuff you'd find interesting on that site if you never checked them out before...maybe along the lines of the early types of works that you wrote about...
https://www.gutenberg.org/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden