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Famed Architect Philip Johnson’s Hidden Nazi Past

Edit Vanity Fair 04 Apr 2016
At its peak, Coughlin’s listenership reached some 30 million to 40 million people each week over William Shirer’s own CBS Radio network—about one-third of the U.S ... Sticking beside Shirer, Johnson kept grilling him ... William Shirer’s best-selling Berlin Diary, which was published in 1941, pulled no punches in its description of Johnson, the “American fascist” who covered the Polish front with him at the start of the Second World War....

lost in the multiverse of history

Edit New Statesman 26 Mar 2016
In 1947, the US surrenders ... In these chapters – published in The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick (1995), edited and introduced by Lawrence Sutin – Dick shows a Nazi commando group crossing over into the parallel world and returning with documentary evidence of its history, including a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third ­Reich (1960), by the American war correspondent William Shirer ... “There are other possibilities ... .] ... Why? ... ....

Fascism, American Style

Edit Huffington Post 22 Mar 2016
"If we define an American fascist as one who, in case of conflict, puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States." ― Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States ... They're all fascists ... Again ... Shortly after World War II, historian William L. Shirer predicted that America may be the first country in which fascism comes to power through democratic elections ... ....

Almanac for Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016

Edit Topix 24 Feb 2016
DuBois in 1868; film director Victor Fleming in 1889; journalist/author William Shirer in 1904; Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay on the 1945 flight that dropped the atomic ......

No place for games: ‘Nazi Olympics’ opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Feb 2016
SKOKIE, Ill ... It’s a compelling tale of comeuppance. The fuller truth, of course, is darker and more complex, as a new exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie demonstrates ... Feb ... The former Chicago Tribune correspondent William Shirer, says exhibition text, was one of the few to regard the “Berlin glitter as merely hiding a racist, militaristic regime.”. History, of course, proved Shirer and his fellow doubters correct ... ———....

Peter Pomerantsev: 'Putin's Russia needs a new genre for each chapter'

Edit The Guardian 15 Dec 2015
In Nothing is True, Everything is Possible, Pomerantsev navigated the strange reality of Putin’s new Russia, where disinformation and truth are equal. The writer sheds light on the process of telling an impossible story ... I decided the solution was to switch genres between chapters ... Twitter ... ‘Peter Pomerantsev has written the most bitter indictment of a nation’s politics and society going wrong since William Shirer’s 1941 Berlin Diary ... ....

Luka Magnotta reads up on Nazis

Edit Toronto Sun 03 Nov 2015
In his reference to The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany, Magnotta probably means The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a book by William L. Shirer that chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the 1920s to its end in 1945. Interestingly, Shirer repeatedly refers to ......

Review: ‘1944’ by Jay Winik

Edit The Miami Herald 15 Oct 2015
The three greatest U.S. presidents were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, according to popular historian Jay Winik, who has now produced books focusing on each of these three leaders ... By 1944 — Winik shows conclusively — U.S ... Winik’s assessment is based on careful research and the comprehensive works of others, including Doris Kearns Goodwin and William Shirer, whom he fully credits ... officials is undeniable ... ....

Ayatollah Fails Hitler Standard on Great-Power Pacts

Edit National Review 23 Sep 2015
As the late CBS Radio newsman William L. Shirer chronicled in his riveting Berlin Diary, on September 30, 1938, the Nazi dictator signed the Munich Pact with Italy’s Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, France’s prime minister Édouard Daladier, and — most memorably — Great Britain’s prime minister Neville Chamberlain ... Waving a copy of the agreement overhead, Chamberlain infamously told a crowd outside No. 10 Downing Street ... ....

Out of the poison cabinet

Edit The Hindu 19 Sep 2015
A couple of months ago, Amazon India’s 11th best-selling book was Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf ... Distinguished historian William L. Shirer described Mein Kampf as the “blueprint of the Third Reich” and wrote that “the barbaric New Order which Hitler inflicted on conquered Europe in the triumphant years between 1939 and 1945 is set down in all its appalling crudity” ... website this week ... Brechtken ... Keywords....

Do they always speak as democrats?

Edit Deccan Chronicle 19 Aug 2015
There is nothing inherently sacrosanct about the Speaker of Parliament, any Parliament. If you compare the speaker of Australia’s Parliament with India’s, as some media analysts tried to do recently, you could be missing the point ... William Shirer astutely captured the political vaudeville, which has since been repeated in many democracies, including India. Shirer writes ... Goering took no notice of it and ordered the vote to proceed.”....

Do they always speak as

Edit Dawn 17 Aug 2015
THERE is nothing inherently sacrosanct about the speaker of parliament, any parliament. If you compare the speaker of Australia’s parliament with India’s, as some media analysts tried to do recently, you could be missing the point ... William Shirer astutely captured the political vaudeville, which has since been repeated in many democracies, including India. Shirer writes. ... “All but Goering. His smiling face was turned the other way ... ....

Could the Third Reich Happen Here?

Edit The Daily Beast 13 Aug 2015
The Nazis ruled by fear and Sir Richard Evans, probably our foremost authority on the Third Reich, explains how they did it and why that matters today. Shop ▾. Could it happen here? ... foreign policy ... The old argument of Allied wartime propaganda put forward by historians like A.J.P.Taylor and William L. Shirer that Germany was somehow predestined to succumb to the appeal of Nazism was exploded long ago ... Absolutely ... Shop ▾. ....
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