Inside: Whigs as Zombie Federalists. The Eminem of the "Jump Jim Crow" dance. Inheritence as control by the dead. 19th century amusements: soap bubbles still hot. Trains will make homes obsolete and the telegraph was the internet.

feat. @Alecks_Guns and @MattLech

Sources:

Cook, Jonathan A. "“The Most Satisfactory Villain That Ever Was”: Charles W. Upham and The House of the Seven Gables." The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 252-285.

David Grant. "The Death of Anti-Whiggery in The House of the Seven Gables." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 63, no. 1 (2017): 79-117. https://muse.jhu.edu/

Ashby, LeRoy. With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830. University Press of Kentucky, 2006. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcqsr.

Utopian Socialists by Youtuber 'robert King'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrHBScLhQA

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Alex and Matt talk Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" and "A Dialogue Between Old England and New," originally published in 1650 in The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, a collection often said to have been published without Anne's full awareness and which saw her become the first poet, male or female, from the "New World." We also discuss the context of patriarchal repression illustrated by the Anne Hutchinson trials and the place of women in colonial New England.

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References:

'Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet' by Charlotte Gordon (2005)

'The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic' by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker (2000) Full book here:

(https://libcom.org/library/many-headed-hydra-peter-linebaugh-marcus-rediker/)

Elizabeth Klett's recording of "The Tenth Muse" at Archive.org

(https://archive.org/details/tenthmuse_elizabethklett)

Chris and I discuss Nancy MacLean's controversial 2017 book 'Democracy in Chains' and the right-wing attack on Democracy. Is James Buchanan the Machiavelli of Libertarianism or its Forrest Gump? Thanks for listening! Please leave a review on iTunes or wherever is easiest and consider supporting the show with patreon.com/literaryhangover

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References:

MacLean's defense:

'The Controversy over Democracy in Chains' by Andy Seal

https://s-usih.org/2017/07/the-controversy-over-democracy-in-chains/

'School Vouchers, James Buchanan, and Segregation' by John Jackson

https://altrightorigins.com/2017/08/06/school-vouchers-segregation/

'Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice' by Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, Suresh Naidu

http://elliottash.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ash-chen-naidu-2018-07-15.pdf

MacLean's critics:

"The Sound of Silence. A Review Essay of Nancy Maclean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America," by Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175135

"On the Origins and Goals of Public Choice Constitutional Conspiracy?" By Michael C. Munger

http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=9115

Other references

"Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane? Some Research Questions in Social Change and Big Government" by Tyler Cowen

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/cowen_freedom_wax_and_wane_v3.pdf

"Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide" via Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/02/idiocracy-prequel.html

"Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" via The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

Back again with more coverage of Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, we follow the story through the end of Volume 1. Including discussion of storytelling's place in liberal progress, the hands-on patriarchy of the colonial period, and more.

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References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Weierman, Karen Woods. "Reading and Writing "Hope Leslie": Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Indian "Connections"." The New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2002): 415-43. doi:10.2307/1559786.

Hi all, here is the third installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. This is the end of Volume 1.

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Hi all, in preparations for the this week's episode, Part 2 on Hope Leslie, here is the second installment of my narration originally released for for members.

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Hi everyone! At long last, the first episode on Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. This week, Alex and I are joined by Grace to break down the whodunit? of Sedgwick's erasure from the American literary canon, the incredible amount of still-relevant social isssues she includes in her novel, as well as a look at some of the limitations of 19th century humanitarian liberalism. Thanks for the support.

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References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Hi everyone! In preparation for the first Hope Leslie episode on Saturday, I'm unlocking (previously available at Patreon.com/literaryhangover) the first installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. These are the chapters that Grace, Alex, and I talk about.

Once I'm finished, I'll upload it to Librivox where my (admittedly amateurish) narration will be immortalized in the public domain for as long as the internet exists. Not only is there not a good audiobook narration for Hope Leslie, there really isn't a very good free full text copy. The one linked above is only useful in PDF format. There's a good Penguin Classics edition of the book however. Some of the language is antiquated, so you may want a copy to read along with. https://archive.org/details/hopeleslieorearl01sedg

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Hi everyone! Apologies for being a couple days late but it'll have been worth it as I think this came together nicely: to accompany Hope Leslie, a brief overview of the Pequot 'War' that is featured in the novel, New England's first genocide. Recommended reading:

God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England by James A Warren (2018)

American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor (2001)

Academic works cited: Katherine A. Grandjean. "New World Tempests: Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War." The William and Mary Quarterly 68, no. 1 (2011): 75-100.

Andrew C. Lipman. "Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 2 (2011): 268-294

YouTube videos cited:

Annowon Weeden discusses wampum with the Boston Children’s Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUZRsT7rGMs&t=2s

Mystic Voices - The Pequot War

https://youtu.be/oPjGprOVtsQ

Part 2

https://youtu.be/UeWqRq9NrRc

Massacre at Mystic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWthdTU7CY&t=2117s

Steven Crowder's dumb ass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxYVbC283uM

Hi everyone! Chris and I return with a book club discussion on Corey Robin's "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump," on of my favorite books on conservative ideology. TOPICS:

Chapter 2, "On Counterrevolution," Conservatism as ideology of losers

Majority Report Zero Sum Debate

https://youtu.be/SbITzwJdOMw?t=258

4m23-8m25

Anger at a decadent ruling class Tucker Carlson Clips Ranting Against GOP and NIKE

Corey Robin @ Harvard Law on the Second Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rw0WNXNZUg

10m45-17m30 Trump/GOP surprising impotence.

47m-57m10 GOP/Reactionaries as Victims of Winning

Third Audiobook Clip On Ayn Rand and Hitler's Capitalist Meritocracy (From 'Metaphysics & Chewing Gum, Ch 7)

-Trump tax story:

"Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father" -NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

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