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We're Having A Hard Time Understanding Where Jazz Is Going. What Happened To Jazz?

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

History Is Malleable. A New Cache Of Diaries Can Shed New Light, And Archeological Evidence Can Challenge Our Popular Assumptions.

You Need, As A Historian, Essential Triangulation From Your Subject And The Only Way You Get That Triangulation Is Through Time.

Do Not Lose Your Enthusiasm. In Its Greek Etymology, The Word Enthusiasm Means, "god In Us."