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January 22, 2012
How To Read A Pudding
Every history book is more than a collection of names, dates and details. It is a philosophical and political statement about how the author thinks the world really works....Your job as an analytical reader of history is to figure out the assumptions and the ideas behind the picture the historian is painting. In one sense, you are fighting the historian. Instead of sitting there passively drinking it in, you are challenging and questioning. But by reading the book in this way, you are engaging much more fully with the author than the passive reader. You are thinking seriously and deeply about exactly the questions that the historian thinks are most important. --| Via Meadia
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 22, 2012 5:47 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Fully agree with Abe Yanofsky. Apparently his rook sacrifice agsnait PeruvianAlberto Dulanto at age 14 is considered extremely noteworthy too. But beatinga World Champ is pretty cool. Also props to Mark beating Topalov, if famous inthe modern era counts.
Posted by: Mido at July 15, 2012 12:18 AM