>>> Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/13/00 05:32PM >>>
> >>> 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
I'll denigrate Parenti for being unwilling to look at evidence--they
did dig the guy up, after all, out of historical curiosity...
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CB: Ah , yes , evidence. Who were the witnesses ?
