Surplus and capital formation Nov 19, 2009
After World War II, US occupation regime in Japan under General Douglas MacArthur, whom historian William Manchester labeled an American Caesar, instituted land reform in 1945, under which all land with resident lords in excess of one cho (2. 45 acres) was acquired and redistributed to the tenants on it at a nominal payment, while absentee landlords were not allowed to keep even one cho, but had to surrender all their land for redistribution. (Asia Times Online)
Feith Contract Not Renewed Aug 30, 2009
" Feith for his blatant violations of national and international law and his consistent, intentional skewing of vital intelligence to support an obviously illegal invasion and occupation of a nation that had done us no harm is puerile. I assume you are a student at Georgetown, Doug, but I don't think you really appreciate what that means - what the name and reputation of that institution and the few others like it represent to those of us trying to make intelligent sense of the events of our... (The Hoya, Washington DC)
Another View: Till death do us part Aug 19, 2009
"Any man in combat who lacks comrades who will die for him, or for whom he is willing to die," William Manchester wrote of his time as a Marine in World War II, "is not a man at all. He is truly damned." A century earlier, Robert E. Lee famously remarked that it was good that war "is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.". Neither was glorifying war -- both hated its carnage. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Reinterpreting early August Aug 3, 2009
Many of the letters I receive convey versions of what the historian and former Marine William Manchester wrote about his reaction to the bomb: We were going to live. We were going to grow to adulthood after all. (Boston Globe)
10 cents a minute Apr 20, 2009
In his great 1974 book, "The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972," William Manchester wrote about the psychological effect of unemployment in the Depression on men whose sense of personal worth was tied up with their manly duty to support their families. When they couldn't do that any more, and their wives and kids had to work to scrape up money for survival, they were often emotionally devastated. (Boston Globe)
A World Lit Only by Fire by William... Mar 6, 2009
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester: Tales of The Middle Ages ... A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester ... A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester. (Suite101.com)
