Attitude from the Divan- a tribute to the Salon by risa
Read up on the history of the Salon:
THE POWER OF CONVERSATION: JEWISH WOMEN AND THEIR SALONS.
Parlor Politics:
In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
“…without the face-to-face relationships and networks of interest created in society, the American experiment in government could not function.
Into this conundrum, writes Catherine Allgor, stepped women like Dolley Madison and Louisa Catherine Adams, women of political families who used the unofficial, social sphere to cement the relationships that politics needed to work.”
November 10th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
I have not read her book but I have discussed this topic and feel very strongly about it.
When any form of goernment relies on social standing as opposed to good policy and good governing, the system of electoral democracy fails to provide the truth. I beleive this is one of the main issues that the american system is struggling whith.
Their entire historical identity is based on family favors and slave trading. When will people wake up and realize that the only people who have power are the same ones who did 100 and 200 hundred years ago. The venues she speaks of are infact the facilitators of the never-changing american governig body. There has been no shift, because they dictate history as they see fit. And as long as we all continue to eat up the pablum fed culture, we are headed to the slaughter.