{"id":506,"date":"2011-10-25T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=506"},"modified":"2011-10-25T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:01:09","slug":"october-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/25\/october-25-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"October 25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve focused on two aspects of my December 1 paper: compiling a background in foreign lobby history and writing a draft of my narrative opening. \u00a0On a side note, I&#8217;ve begun going through <em>FRUS<\/em>, and I&#8217;ve\u00a0also hunted down Pearson&#8217;s memoir published in the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, which gives his point of view of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a subcategory to &#8220;Secondary Sources,&#8221; where I&#8217;ve begun posting brief synopses of the flashpoint foreign lobbies in U.S. history. At some point in the future I may end up making a separate historiography drop-down category. This week, I&#8217;ve concentrated on the lobbies that preceded the India Lobby: the French, Latin American, and European revolutionaries. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been consulting George Herring&#8217;s survey, <em>From Colony to Superpower<\/em>, to refamiliarize myself with the material. \u00a0My blog posts so far contain a brief summary of the event\/individual\/lobby in question, some additional sources I plan on exploring, as well as some of my initial reactions to the lobbies. Some general observations so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individuals or small groups characterize these early lobbies (Citizen Genet,\u00a0Diego de Saavedra and Juan Pedro de Aguirre, Louis Kossuth). Though they all represented a larger community or state, much of their success as a persuasive diplomat seemed to rest in how Americans and U.S. policy members received them as an individual.<\/li>\n<li>American presidents seemed to gauge their response to the lobby on how realistic they believed the lobbyist&#8217;s goals were. For example, American presidents\/secretaries of state gave the Latin American delegates and Louis Kossuth no more than a verbal sign of their support for their independence movements. Edmond Genet, however, was representing an established nation, and John Adams practically declared war with France.<\/li>\n<li>The American public&#8217;s response to the various causes was directly related to the presence of the lobby in America: the lobbyists brought their causes to the American conscious for the first time (reflection of the availability of world news in the era?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">In the upcoming weeks, I plan on expanding my research on the existing lobbies I&#8217;ve examined in a more historiographic approach as well as beginning to cover the mid-twentieth-century foreign lobbies: Israel, China, and Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/narrative-opening.docx\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is my first draft of my narrative opening for my December 1 presentation paper. Currently, I feel like the narrative opening I&#8217;ve written isn&#8217;t really a narrative at all, but more of a summary of the scene. I want this introduction to captivate the reader and convey a sense of excitement which I think the Pearson leak should generate. I&#8217;m thinking of maybe starting again with a version of page 3 as the opening paragraph, but I haven&#8217;t quite worked out how to do that yet. This is the first time I&#8217;ve written a paper with the conscious plan to incorporate it in a larger paper, which may be throwing me off a bit because I feel like I don&#8217;t want to fully elaborate this section because it will only be the introduction of my final thesis. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I&#8217;ve focused on two aspects of my December 1 paper: compiling a background in foreign lobby history and writing a draft of my narrative opening. \u00a0On a side note, I&#8217;ve begun going through FRUS, and I&#8217;ve\u00a0also hunted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/25\/october-25-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}