I hope you continue Appleby, its good so far. If the modding gets the best of you remember its the story that's important.
Alright people, important announcement!
I am restarting this AAR, but there will be changes. You see, as I am in IB, I need to write an internal assessment, basically a long essay, on history to pass the course. Last year I looked at Barry Goldwater's impact on the Republican Party, this year I am looking at how Wilson's moral internationalism affected Harding's foreign policy. In writing this paper I have found yet more evidence that Woodrow Wilson was basically terrible and I figured that this AAR needed changing. Therefore this weekend, I am beginning a new AAR, The American Experience 1912-1964, which will begin with the election of 1912 and which I hope will be a bit more regular than the last one. It will still be a history book style AAR, it will still feature Burton Wheeler and the rest of the popular cast of characters we all know and love and it will permit me to begin some more, hopefully interesting plot threads.
The new AAR will include:
Smoke-Filled Rooms
Espionage
Burton Wheeler
Warren Harding
Burton Wheeler getting mad at people
World War One
Isolationism
Russian Civil War stuff
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Billy Mitchell
The United States Navy
Badly written action scenes
Stuff about the Mexican Civil War and Latin America in general
Lots and lots of stuff about the Senate
And hopefully bi-weekly, if not more frequent, updates
Oh and expect a nice opening action scene as the first post, it will be taking place in the first year of the AAR, ten points to whoever guesses the location and what Taft aide is going to be in it.
In writing this paper I have found yet more evidence that Woodrow Wilson was basically terrible and I figured that this AAR needed changing.
The new AAR will include:
Smoke-Filled Rooms
Espionage
Burton Wheeler
Warren Harding
Burton Wheeler getting mad at people
World War One
Isolationism
Russian Civil War stuff
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Billy Mitchell
The United States Navy
Badly written action scenes
Stuff about the Mexican Civil War and Latin America in general
Lots and lots of stuff about the Senate
And hopefully bi-weekly, if not more frequent, updates
Oh and expect a nice opening action scene as the first post, it will be taking place in the first year of the AAR, ten points to whoever guesses the location and what Taft aide is going to be in it.
So, does anybody want to hazard a guess as to the location of the first action sequence?
...this year I am looking at how Wilson's moral internationalism affected Harding's foreign policy.
I'm looking forward to your next AAR.
As for Wilson, it's all the Republican Party's fault that he won two elections. Why? They kept nominating Presidential candidates with facial hair at a time when the electorate wanted someone without facial hair to sit in the Oval Office. It took the GOP until 1920 to catch up with the changing times.
Had the 1916 election gone the other way, you wouldn't be writing that essay at all.
While I appreciate the analysis of Republican nominating strategy vis-a-vis facial hair, I suspect that their recent successes with the bemoustached Taft and Roosevelt blinded them to voters' sudden abandonment of well-follicled candidates.
In any event, my laptop's hard drive appears to have died Friday morning, leading to the rather distressing loss of my update in progress and of basically all of my other school work of the past three years, including various critical assignments which are basically irreplaceable. Anyway, the revival is in the works, but matters of school and hard drive death will likely delay any update until at least Friday. But I hope that the setting and the action in my inaugural update will somewhat compensate you folks for the delay.
Okay, so the guys at the computer repair shop described the situation to me thusly: "Your hard drive basically said 'screw it' and put a gun in its mouth". Anyway, they said that most of the data would be recoverable, but what this basically means is that I'm stuck playing catch-up until at least Friday. The revival is coming, I have much planned for it, but as Hamlet said "Frailty thy name is technology!" and thus I am buffeted against the rocks of hard drive failure by the cruel winds of fate.
The American Experience is getting a re-boot and in the good sense, not in the Total Recall sense!