Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt is a historian primarily concerned with leisure and the labor movements of America. His book Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream catalogues the birth of America’s first dream—that of having free time and leisure— from a fire and brimstone preacher of the 1700’s up until the death of it by various government…
Tag: American History
The End of Court History
A review of Truman: By David McCullough For the amount of attention the post 1945/91 World Order and the US domestic social deconstruction gets in our circles, the historical circumstances leading towards the decay of American social order do not get much more thorough than books like McCullough’s Truman, Caro’s Johnson or Davis’ FDR. The…
The American Sun 