The more I look around Wikipedia the lamer I find it truly is.

There are four books listed under "Literature" for "History of the United States." The last three are the textbooks we're using for APUSH - Johnson's "A History of the American People," Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," and Kennedy/Bailey/Cohen's "The American Pageant" 12e. Yeah, 12th edition exactly. What does that tell you about the people who wrote the article? Kids who were in love with Wikipedia and had taken APUSH. Yeah, the period-summaries look like textbook to me. I wouldn't care, except I do know there are more than four books out there on American history. It's just silly.

Mainly I'm frustrated because I didn't bring Johnson and I'm finding I want him, so I can find that bit about America being JUST LIKE Rome. Also, what Hamilton tried and failed to grow on that plot of land.

Or I could just make shit up and not have a catchy byline for my fic. I think I'll go for that. It's already full of bolonga; what harm is a little more going to do?

ETA:

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Hamilton

"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive." - Jefferson

"Good wine is a necessity of life for me." - Jefferson (attributed)

"A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden." - Hamilton, in a letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (29 December 1802)

"Hamilton is really a colossus... without numbers, he is a host unto himself." - Thomas Jefferson

- Hamilton's failure of a garden

- Jefferson's "three greatest men" scene, with Hamilton's Caesar rebuttal.

- muttonhead Washington

- Jefferson professed to admire Hamilton's character in his Anas

REAL TRUE FACTS: Jefferson was self-contradictory; Hamilton was a tease and not strictly honest; both were prejudiced against Aaron Burr (if you ask historian Roger G. Kennedy); both Hamilton and Jefferson were rather passionate, but Hamilton was extroverted to all appearances and impulsive, whereas Jefferson thought very carefully about his presentation and kept to himself.