Neil Rolde's 2006 book, Continental Liar from the State of Maine, is a biography of James G. Blaine, the Maine politician who dominated the American political stage from just before the Civil War and almost until the twentieth century. A former Maine politician himself, Rolde is a prize-winning historian and author of Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians; The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands; Maine, Down East and Different; and many other books. A former Board member of the Maine Humanities Council, and won the Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize in 2005.
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This is a great talk that opens a wonderful window into the politics of 19thC Maine in the context of the national scene. It's a great picture of a real "operator" who played a disproportionately important role. Well worth a listen
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