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		<title>American Exceptionalism &#8211; Cancelled</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2009/11/14/american-exceptionalism-cancelled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Daniel Mallock This deep bow to the Emperor of Japan by the President of the United States is a display of deep respect in Japanese culture, but is completely inappropriate.   Obama&#8217;s purpose appears to be the total opposite of Reagan&#8217;s; the destruction of the concept of American exceptionalism and power. The Obama nightmare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sylvia Plath&#8217;s Son Commits Suicide</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2009/03/22/sylvia-plaths-son-commits-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can there be a more tragic literary and human scenario than this? Plath commited suicide some 46 years ago. Now, her son Nicholas Hughes is dead by his own hand at 46. Nicholas was but an infant when Plath gassed herself to death in her kitchen with her two children in the next room. Long considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Advertising Is Art</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2009/01/17/when-advertising-is-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising seems to work best when it&#8217;s not really advertising at all. The idea that a thing is at its best when it is not the thing that it is purported to be is a challenging one. The following video proves the point, I think. A mixture of superb timing and superb artistry this amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Still Greater Sacrifices&#8221; &#8211; Patrick Cleburne&#8217;s Proposal</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/12/23/still-greater-sacrifices-patrick-cleburnes-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confederate General Patrick Cleburne&#8217;s Proposal to Arm and Free the Slaves by Daniel Mallock (copyright, 2008) Two concepts were at the heart of Confederate war aims. Major General Patrick Cleburne, division commander in the Army of Tennessee, came to see these goals as in conflict with one another. As Major Anderson lowered the flag at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Vincent Benet Reviews Douglas Southall Freeman&#8217;s R. E. Lee</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/06/05/stephen-vincent-benet-reviews-douglas-southall-freemans-r-e-lee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bit of Gold Tumbles from Between the Covers Introduced by Daniel Mallock Stephen Vincent Benet&#8217;s John Brown&#8217;s Body is one of the finest books of prose poetry in American literature. It well-deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1929. It has always had a special place in the hearts of most Civil War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Walk in the Park &#8211; Civil War Studies Practically Applied</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/05/16/a-walk-in-the-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Walk in The Park by Daniel Mallock Last year I had a most abysmal job. The only joy in it was the location, nearby to Centennial Park in Nashville, Tn. Nashville was surrendered without a shot to the Union after Forts Henry and Donelson fell to US Grant in early 1862. The Federals immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franklin and Spring Hill Tour &#8211; Understanding John Bell Hood, CSA</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/05/11/franklin-and-spring-hill-tour-understanding-john-bell-hood-csa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Responsibility of Command &#8211; John Bell Hood and the Nashville Campaign with the John Bell Hood Society by Daniel Mallock There is no question that John Bell Hood is one of the great tragic heroes of the Civil War. His story is full of pain, frustration, victories and defeats, advances and finally retreats. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Republic of Suffering&#8221; by Drew Gilpin Faust &#8211; Must History Hurt So?</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/03/10/this-republic-of-suffering-by-drew-gilpin-faust-reviewed-must-history-hurt-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Reviewer Suffered! &#8220;This Republic of Suffering&#8221; by Drew Gilpin Faust Reviewed by Daniel Mallock _uacct = "UA-2934308-1"; urchinTracker(); Like the Civil War itself, there was certainly an air of inevitability about &#8220;This Republic of Suffering&#8221; by Drew Gilpin Faust. The almost universally shocking devastation and death wrought by the Civil War fundamentally changed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randall Jarrell &#8211; America&#8217;s Great Poet of WW2</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/01/31/randall-jarrell-americas-great-poet-of-ww2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little Friend, Little Friend &#8211; Jarrell&#8217;s Powerful, Quiet, Short Homage to America&#8217;s War Introduction by Daniel Mallock A great poem ought to be huge &#8211; grand in scope, but not necessarily excessive in length. Great poetry should tell massive stories with multiple layers concisely and artfully. One doesn&#8217;t need obscure references, convoluted language, nor self-congratulatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyin&#8217; Ain&#8217;t Much of a Livin&#8217; &#8211; Civil War on Film</title>
		<link>http://booksfilmandmusic.com/2008/01/27/dyin-aint-much-of-a-livin-civil-war-on-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greatest Civil War Western &#8211; The Outlaw Josie Wales by Daniel Mallock The Outlaw Josie Wales is my favorite western. It&#8217;s considered by some folks to be the greatest western. I agree. A great western should have a collection of strong key elements, and Josie Wales has them all. The setting is the savage [...]]]></description>
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