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As EdT observed (about the UK) the 1880s is one of the most politically fascinating periods for politics, which is certainly also true in the USA - as you say, the challenge for us is to bring the characters to life as official accounts can be stuffy. I always appeal to Punch magazine as a way to humanise British politics of the era, and the same is true for America with its counterpart Puck, as well as things like Harper's Weekly, which Wiki has a number of illustrations from.I always find it difficult to really get a handle on the late 19th Century Republicans as individuals I have to say.
Just noticed a couple of typoes I've told Gary about. You'd think I would get Blaine's home state right after how many times I mentioned it in The Twilight's Last Gleaming (of course, I knew he was from Maine but my brain copy-pasted from the previous sentence).
I was reflecting the other day that my biggest 'Tim Congdon' moment related to TL-191 is I am absolutely convinced on a core level that Calvin Coolidge died soon after his election and was succeeded by his VP Herbert Hoover, to the point that I double taked at @Lord Roem mentioning something about what Coolidge wrote about being retired from the presidency.If not that then certainly the embarrassment of having part his home state annexed by the British following the Second Mexican War.
I always find it difficult to really get a handle on the late 19th Century Republicans as individuals I have to say.
It's not all about the presidency!Which is better than late 19th Democrats which can be summed up as two individuals, a non-consecutive one and a perennial one.
There are some exceptions, but yeah.Yeah, but, well, the Democrats who are not Cleveland (and mayyyyyyybe Tilden) are the Redeemers perpetrating horribleness.
The Blaine in Maine falls mainly on the pain.Just noticed a couple of typoes I've told Gary about. You'd think I would get Blaine's home state right after how many times I mentioned it in The Twilight's Last Gleaming (of course, I knew he was from Maine but my brain copy-pasted from the previous sentence).
Chester Arthur II
Reading more and more about him and he seems to have been specifically grown in a lab to be the most attractive man possible to me. He apparently was also a major backer of Upton Sinclair??? And starred in this 1930 film about interracial relationships with Paul Robeson??? He’s like a woke Forrest Gump.The thing I always remember about Chester Arthur apart from the obvious is that his grandson Chester Arthur III was a constantly skint bisexual astrologist/sexologist/LGB liberation activist who was associated with several other better-known LGB liberationists in mid-twentieth century California.
Constantly skint because his father Chester Arthur II was apparently a complete waste of space who burned through all of that Port of New York money.
EDIT: Did I mention he was associated with the IRA? Because he was totally associated with the IRA, too.
That's cool. My knowledge pretty much extends to what I said above.Reading more and more about him and he seems to have been specifically grown in a lab to be the most attractive man possible to me. He apparently was also a major backer of Upton Sinclair??? And starred in this 1930 film about interracial relationships with Paul Robeson??? He’s like a woke Forrest Gump.
It gets better. It turns out he was also a massive fan of Edward Carpenter (the Gay Vegetarian Socialist Poet who was a partial inspiration for Maurice) and the two met repeatedly and Arthur may have had sex with him or Carpenter became a strong Political & Sexual mentor of sorts. Oh and Carpenter was the one who told Arthur about Walt Whitman's sex life and how Whitman was probably Bi.Reading more and more about him and he seems to have been specifically grown in a lab to be the most attractive man possible to me. He apparently was also a major backer of Upton Sinclair??? And starred in this 1930 film about interracial relationships with Paul Robeson??? He’s like a woke Forrest Gump.