In the film Diner, the 1980 Barry Levinson classic about young adults resisting adulthood in late 1950s Baltimore, Timothy Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) asks Boogie (Mickey Rourke) if “You ever get the feeling there's something going on that we don't know about?” Fenwick was referring to women, and in particular a pretty girl from a part of Baltimore far (in a figurative sense) from their Fell's Point hangouts, but in reality, he was talking about the world in general. There's so much that we don't know.
That's one of many reasons why readers will find Carl Cannon's On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time so enjoyable, so insightful, and so educational about the U.S. The polymath author (full disclosure: Cannon is Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics, and I'm editor of RealClearMarkets) describes in endlessly interesting fashion historical occurrences that took place each day in the calendar year.
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