Ulysses S. Grant

[ritaxis]

I don't know how many people regularly follow Patrick's sidelights at Making Light, but today there's a really interesting one: Nathan Newman talks about why Ulysses S. Grant might be our best president, and why we don't mostly think so.

The short version: Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other president to promote equal rights and democracy, and his history has been buried and his reputation has been smeared by the forces which defeated Reconstruction.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get an RSS feed for this guy Nathan Newman. He's hot stuff.

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah. That is linked where the home page says "Syndicate this Site (XML)". The url is <http://www.nathannewman.org/log/index.rdf>--that's a syndicator URL.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one I was already given, and it doesn't work.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I just tried it again, and this time it worked. Go figure.