>>> Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/12/00 05:48PM >>btw: Michael Parenti
>has noted that policy of containing spread of
slavery was promptly reversed following death of President Zachary
Taylor (southern slaveowner opposed to extension of slavery and
secession) death. Parenti's article "The Strange Death of President
Zachary Taylor" (*New Political Science*, Vol. 20, #2: June 1998)
raises questions about official cause of death (severe indigestion
from eating too many iced cherries with milk after sitting too long
in sun, or something like that), looks askance at mainstream
historians' parroting of official line despite insufficient evidence,
and critiques conclusion drawn from 1991 exhumation that Taylor was
not poisoned.
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CB: Soon someone will denigrate Parenti as a conspiracy theorist.
Coup d'etats may be more common in U.S. history than legends of American democracy
have it.
CB
