NP - This Week in Fake American History -- UPDATE II

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/david-brooks-alexander-hamilton-9257268

And in this remarkable tour through American history, I haven't seen a
single actual American worker. The Erie Canal was carved by magic
glaciers. The transcontinental railroad was laid by elves, not
underpaid Chinese laborers from the West and immigrant laborers in the
East. The steel that was laid was made by woodsprites and gnomes, and
dwarves and happy goblins dug out the coal to power the trains. The
goods in the freight cars were made by sprinking golden Founders dust
on the cotton plants, which magically turned into clothing, and was
not picked by slaves nor made into shirts by Irish girls squinting
themselves into blindness in the mills in Lowell. There were no
workers to join unions, to insist on luxuries like the five-day week
and the eight-hour day. There were no breaker kids picking through the
coal bins. There was no middle class. There were just Contending
Theories Of Government, which do not eat much.