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“Observing his captors, Kojima was astounded by their racial and ethnic diversity: “Blond, silver, black, brown, red hair. Blue, green, brown, black eyes. White, black, skin colors of every variety. I was stunned. I realized then that we’d fought against all the peoples of the world. At the same time, I thought, what a funny country America is, all those different kinds of people fighting in the same uniform!”61 On”
― Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
― Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
“Jackson’s party was actually composed of “obsequious champions of executive power,” acolytes of a warrior-based cult of personality who wallowed in a fantasy view of the glamour of conquest. Which was decidedly not democracy. The Massachusetts congressman thoroughly despised the current political cant. Jacksonians had concocted their so-called democracy and cast it as—here Adams satirized them—“the government of the whole people and nothing but the people; that no fraction of the people, not the purest, not the strongest, not the wealthiest, not the wisest, no—the whole people, man, woman, child, born or unborn, foreigner and native—the lunatic, the lover and the poet, all must govern—and that is Democracy”
― The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
― The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
Armchair Sailors
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