How does that compare to Haiti? Jamaica? Dominican Republic? Context and comparison are key in history.

I dislike the textbook too, for one reason it is too textbooky (i.e. encyclopedia like) and thus boring. So, some quibbles: The famine caused by the Great Leap Forward was not butchery. Mao had plenty of that. But the famine was due to wrongful planning. That is different than deliberate killing. Modernizing means industrializing, not living standards. It is right for Charen to mention authors. The text is written by several. Singling out who wrote the 20th C. chapters might be more useful than thinking the 20th C. represents how they cover early modern, ancient, Africa, etc. which are probably written by different authors than the 20th C.

Which book is this?

king10 are you defending Rich L.'s conjecture? So, you're saying my defense based on evidence is weak, but his attack based on nothingbut his FEELINGS is right.

I appreciate everyone getting upset. But what I find interesting is that you have not cared to comment on the original post which claimed teachers were lazy, need no brain, work the least amount of hours of any job, can't think for themselves, teach socialism, et. al. So, if we parse this WE should find that not all or most teachers are lazy. Obviously one needs a brain to teach, whether this be literal or figurative, they do not work the least amount of hours of any job (my post above should dispell that) - this is easily provable (the average worker in the US works 37.5 hours a week, that is average), they can think for themselves (even the teacher here proves that, if badly), and no most do not teach socialism.

Patricia, you heard the whole tape, but seem to take sides. She states that the paper called him a bully, not her. What is right, is she thinks the students can speak ill of Romney (or anyone not President, apparently) and not of the President, be it Obama or Bush.

mach0017, I don't get the question since I said what you said about Bush, but not about any other previous president. See sedition laws passed around WWI.

OzzWorx, she did not. If she did, can you give us a time signature.

I am going by what I heard on the tape. If you know better with evidence please share. If not, it is conjecture. That, for some ignorant reason she thinks the President can't be criticized. Does not make sense.

Not ego at all. Was up to midnight working last night, grading and entering grades. Just got through checking a term paper at home just now. Part of why I get to work harder is that as a teacher in my subject, history, virtually my whole life can be given over to my work. You know, every book I read or movie I watch relates to my field (I am certainly not saying that every book or movie can be considered history or would count). When I was working 10 hour days in a shipping company I would not go home and start reading about Fred Smith, but I did just that in history today with 3 books I ordered. Yesterday was National Geographic, the day before Saudi Aramco World, etc., etc. So part of it is just my job allows for more work.