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Nov 16, 2008
Bankrupting the Enemy
1 of 1 found this helpful Objective students of history recognize the American-led oil embargo of 1941 as an act of economic war against Japan that led directly to Japan's decision to go to war against the "Anglo-Saxon Powers" (The United States, England and their allies) in Asia and the Pacific. "Bankrupting the Enemy" shows in chilling and throughly-documented style that the United States had been waging an economic war against Japan for several years prior to that with the intention of forcing the Japanese to end the Second Sino-Japanese by isolating Japan economically and then bankrupting the Japanese "Yen Bloc" of the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo.
The author also argues that individuals in the American government apparently went well beyond the relatively harst limits envisioned by President Roosevelt -- himself no friend of Japan -- in using America's economic power to destroy the Japanese economy by choking off Japanese trade outside the "Yen Bloc."
Many people believe that the destruction of the greater Japanese Empire ("Dai Nippon") and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was worth the horendous human cost of the Pacific War and its aftermath in East and South Asia, and that Roosevelt and his loose-cannon underlings were justified in attempting to bankrupt Japan. However, anyone who wonders why Japan (as a nation) still refuses to accept "responsibility" for the Pacific War, and wht many Japanese believe that Japan was forced into war by American foreign policy, will find this book eye-opening reading.
It appears to be thoroughly and reliably researched, and the author appears be neither an apologist for Japan nor a Japan "basher."
I recommend this book for any one with an objective interest in the underlying causes of the Pacific War or in one aspect of the economic side of World War II. It is also a chilling reminder of how second- and third-tier bureaucrats can shape -- and sometimes subvert -- government policy with unseen and/or unfortunate results.
Sep 02, 2007
20 Greatest Hits - the Turtles/Flo & Eddie
2 of 2 found this helpful I bought this for no particular reason other than to add all my favorite Turtles songs to my music library. This CD has all of them -- and about 10 more than I wasn't looking for. I can only guess that people who are more interested in the group's total output would approve of the others as well.
The annotation is excellent and provides a thorough history of the group and these particular songs.
In short, I would have been happy with this CD if it contained only the major chart hits -- the songs I was looking for -- but the liner notes helped me appreciate the others.
Dec 05, 2007
Forever Plaid - Original Cast
The show is a gentle spoof of the white pop groups of the 1950s and early 1960s -- mainstream pop music as represented by the Four Lads the Four Freshmen or the Four Aces, not doo wop!
I saw two different productions of it staged by different directors several years ago and was finally inspired to look for a copy of the soundtrack album after seeing the sequel, "Plaid Tidings," which recycles almost all the ideas from "Forever Plaid" as a Christmas-theme show, last month (November 2007).
This soundtrack album is an excellent memento of the production and entertaining listening in its own right.