Review of Stephen E. Ambrose's _The Good Fight_

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed May 30 10:33:44 CDT 2001


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From: "Swing Hammerswing"

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> >One might  say intellectual antiAmericanism is oedipal but I'm not going
> >to.
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> The present cultural state of America would give
> us a good opportunity for studying
> the damage to civilization which is thus to be feared.
> But I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon
> a critique of American civilization; I do not
> wish to give the impression of wnating myself
> to employ American methods.
>
>                           Freud, the end of Ch 5, C&D

Back in 1930 American culture was only a 98 pound gorilla.

                P.




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