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December 11, 2024

Most people know what going “dutch-treat” means. (Each person shares to the penny how much they spent on their own meal, for instance). 

Think AJ (by that I do mean the 7th president – President Andrew Jackson. Read: “To the victor belong the spoils.” 
Apparently, one of New York Senator’s — William L. Marcy — said it referring to the 1828 election, not President Jackson. 
I wonder why Trump’s.father decided to deny his German lineage and went for Sweden instead of Holland or the Netherlands). Trump, Tromp could’ve been Dutch.

I wonder even more what picture will adorn the Oval Office in 2025? Will we have a “repeat?” 

I suppose Trump could put up his own official portrait. Not many presidents have skipped a beat and get a four year respite to learn.#

So what do I mean by double-dutched? What this signifies is how little is known about the New Netherlands, or New Amsterdam (not the tv show). It’s easy. 

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1.Workers’ Paradox, The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy (UNC)

2.Crippled Justice: The History of Disability in the Workplace (U of Chicago)

3.Bodies in Revolt: An Alternative Ethic of Care at the Workplace (Routledge)

4.Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (OUP, 8 of 12 chapters. See Ohio State Law School-Disability Studies, Literature conference, 2006)

5.Out of Many, One: Obama & 3rd American Pol. Tradition (U. of Chicago) See blog on “whether” not weather, but synonym for “if”

6.Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women & Work (Cornell edited)

(selected: SIGNS; Studies in APD; Polity; Law & Social Inquiry; Tulsa Law Review)

solo book series: Heretical Thought (OUP) 9 theory books (OUP maintained website)

& solo book Public Square (PS) (Princeton), 10 books (19 year run) Record of 100% solicitation to publication.

Frontier Politics-is-Always-Personal-Protest

7. book length ms -“Female Frontier Descendants – 1641-2025 It explores the hegemonic journey of the women who crossed the Atlantic in 1641, and then crossed into California, settling in Weed Patch (now Weedpatch) in 1919. As so-called agribusiness, they farmed and did ranching in land next to the farm John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath wrote about in the 1930s. My grandmother married a direct descendant of Henry Clay Frick. Tracing the women in the family, it shows how they embodied certain ideals, moving from Amsterdam to Weed Patch” in almost 400 years.

Graduate Teaching: The American Presidency (TAP) ; American Political Thought (APT); Heretical and/or Contemporary Political Thought(CAPT); American Political Development (APD); Power, Resistance, Identities and Social Movements (PRISM) First female prof. “knighted” by late Rush Limbaugh as the 1st “professorette.” Writing Politics specialization founder, 2004.