David Parker
dbparker.bsky.social
David Parker
@dbparker.bsky.social
professor of history
Just out in the Georgia Library Quarterly: "Eugene Talmadge's Library Book Purge of 1941." digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol62/is...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The more I read about GA Gov. Eugene Talmadge in 1941, the more I think we're a horrible time warp.

From the Atlanta Constitution, 11/30/1941; headline begins, "Talmadge Full-Blown American Fascist."

That's an actual quote: "I reckon I have got what you'd call a minor dictatorship."
August 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
They like each other most of the time.
January 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Grant [Ralph Bellamy] angrily turns to Fardan [Lee Marvin] and says, "You bastard!", to which Fardan retorts: "Yes, sir, in my case an accident of birth. But you, sir, you're a self-made man."
—Wikipedia
January 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM