{"id":3798,"date":"2025-02-16T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:54:21","slug":"the-american-story-conversations-with-master-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by David Rubenstein, 2019, Simon &amp; Shuster, New York <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is a collection of edited transcripts of conversations that the author, David Rubenstein, had with some well-known American historians.  The conversations were held at the Library of Congress beginning in 2013 in the evenings and members of Congress were invited to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is somewhat disappointing.  It seems that due to the extensive editing of the original transcripts, there is little follow up to Rubenstein&#8217;s questions, and most of his questions were stock questions he asked of each author. The observations of the various authors didn&#8217;t seem to provide me with a great deal of new information or insight.  This is unfortunate given the status of these authors and what they have contributed to our knowledge of these key historical figures.  I suspect the original events were much more interesting and enlightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Rubenstein, 2019, Simon &amp; Shuster, New York This book is a collection of edited transcripts of conversations that the author, David Rubenstein, had with some well-known American historians. The conversations were held at the Library of Congress beginning <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3798\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}