Comments on: Recent Reading http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6865.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:25:54 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Hiteshew http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6865.html/comment-page-1#comment-299428 Michael Hiteshew Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:52:01 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6865#comment-299428 Adelsverein - The Gathering sounds like a beautiful and interesting book. I may have to order that... Adelsverein – The Gathering sounds like a beautiful and interesting book. I may have to order that…

]]> By: Sgt. Mom http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/6865.html/comment-page-1#comment-298281 Sgt. Mom Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:30:46 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=6865#comment-298281 Oh, thank you David, for the link and the mention! I am so glad you enjoyed Adelsverein! And oddly enough, I did not make up very much of it... well, the bit of byplay with Carl Becker and the Comanche children - that I made up, as well as some other small details. I began to write novels like this over three years ago. I think that I sensed something in the air, that something bad was coming, and that we would need - more than anything else - to remember who we are, where we came from, the trials that our ancestors endured - and to recollect how very rare, how very daring and experimental this nation was, and is, when compared to other nations. (And enjoy Book Two and Book Three - they carry the story of the Steinmetzes and the Beckers through the Civil War and the tumultuous times immediately afterward.) Oh, thank you David, for the link and the mention! I am so glad you enjoyed Adelsverein! And oddly enough, I did not make up very much of it… well, the bit of byplay with Carl Becker and the Comanche children – that I made up, as well as some other small details.

I began to write novels like this over three years ago. I think that I sensed something in the air, that something bad was coming, and that we would need – more than anything else – to remember who we are, where we came from, the trials that our ancestors endured – and to recollect how very rare, how very daring and experimental this nation was, and is, when compared to other nations. (And enjoy Book Two and Book Three – they carry the story of the Steinmetzes and the Beckers through the Civil War and the tumultuous times immediately afterward.)

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