John A. Farrell
@biographer.bsky.social
Historian. BA, UVA. PhD, Groningen. Biographer of Clarence Darrow, Tip O'Neill, Ted Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Next book: The American Revolution.
500 + at our local Beltway overpass . And well done UVA for resisting the Trump administration extortion.
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
500 + at our local Beltway overpass . And well done UVA for resisting the Trump administration extortion.
This is the president's chair from Independence Hall. It is said that in the summer of 1787 Benjamin Franklin wondered if it was a rising sun or a setting sun and concluded, with the adoption of the Constitution, it was a rising sun. Happy Fourth. May he be right today: all suns set.
July 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is the president's chair from Independence Hall. It is said that in the summer of 1787 Benjamin Franklin wondered if it was a rising sun or a setting sun and concluded, with the adoption of the Constitution, it was a rising sun. Happy Fourth. May he be right today: all suns set.
The last time a black-clad celebrity drug addict made it into the Oval Office, volunteering to fight crime and waste so he could get a cool badge, and had a president kiss his ring.
February 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The last time a black-clad celebrity drug addict made it into the Oval Office, volunteering to fight crime and waste so he could get a cool badge, and had a president kiss his ring.
I visited the Mel Fisher museum in Key West to see treasure recovered from the sunken Spanish galleon Atocha. I didn’t know the museum also displays the ugly shackles and other relics of the British slave ship Henrietta Marie he found nearby, including the little ones used for children and women.
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I visited the Mel Fisher museum in Key West to see treasure recovered from the sunken Spanish galleon Atocha. I didn’t know the museum also displays the ugly shackles and other relics of the British slave ship Henrietta Marie he found nearby, including the little ones used for children and women.