My name is Jack Stanley, I have studied history for many years. This blog is about history in a more raw view, not over done. I often use original materials to bring a historic event or story to life or an interview I may have done with the person mentioned. If you cook a vegetable too long it loses much. The same can be said of many histories. They are the history of the history written before it. Over done history. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE RAW. Comments send to phonograph78@hotmail.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The election of 1896. This book covered the events of the day and the candidates of all the parties involved in the election.
This book was one of many that came out on all the candidates and issues of the day. In an age where there was no radio, TV, Internet, and just the local and daily newspaper. It was hard to learn about many of the people running for office. This was one of the books to service that need and were quite popular. However, after the election who needed the book? They would then go through a pretty fast tossing out period. So they are not as common as you would think. Today they are quite collectible.