Comments on: History Mystery: is FratGuy actually Princeton historian Sean Wilentz?

By: Losing Jon Stewart : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:24 +0000

[...] pretty much everything, which suggests that our national Court Jester sees dire political weakness. I refer you to FratGuy in August of 2008: “What we need is another L.B.J., and what we’re getting with this guy is another Jimmy [...]

By: The Age of Wilentz… « Blurred Productions

The Age of Wilentz… « Blurred Productions — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:50:23 +0000

[...] is – as Historian puts it – a “a romantic populist through and through”. And I think he’s best nationalist [...]

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:45:09 +0000

Not me, Rad–I don’t believe in postethnicity, any more than I could ever believe in posthistory.

FratGuy’s curious silence suggests that perhaps I’ve found him out!

By: Rad readr

Rad readr — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:47:03 +0000

The more important question — is Princeton historian Sean Wilentz (a) Fratguy?

I’m sorry but the Carter thing breaks down when you throw in a little race — don’t tell me you drank the Kool-aid or took the shot on the postethnic stuff.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:11:32 +0000

So letters for that job at Princeton that Wilentz is chairing the search for this fall could theoretically end up with FratGuy? (Not to go Vo-Tech in an Ivy League thread, but I’m open, running the post pattern!) The Carter connection is fascinating, and hadn’t occurred to me before, amid all of these recent these efforts to locate O somewhere in the Kennedy constellation. But I haven’t even come to admit that the Twentieth Century–the second half of it, anyway–actually HAD a history yet. I earned my first honest dollar as a historian at the start of the Carter term, so it’s with a weirdly ambivalent nostalgia that I’ll process the analogies.