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1939: not much to dance about
What was America like in 1939? Between then and today, there was a tremendous anatomy of change, and a good many conditions that prevailed then seem odd today. The United States was on the threshold of a new era, but … Continue reading
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green lines, red lines, and flashing lights
This week on the Mondoweiss site, they selectively pulled excerpts from a letter Jack Kennedy had written his father, Joseph, from Palestine in 1939, when the future President was a mere but perceptive twenty-two years old. Father Joe was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Dominique Lapierre, Hurva Synagogue Jerusalem, Irgun King David Hotel, John F. Kennedy Palestine, Joseph Kennedy, Larry Collins, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Pius XII, Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Palestine
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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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