IVIV Golden Fang reverberations

Doug Millison dougmillison at comcast.net
Sun Dec 6 19:57:57 CST 2009


"There were surprises galore on this imperial cruise. I’m out in China  
and I stumble on the source of the wealth of FDR. I had no idea that  
grandpa Delano was the opium king of China. The wealth that supported  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came from drug dealing. I had no idea. To  
continually -- as you see in the book -- come across page after after  
page of things where you say, “I didn’t know that!”.... I got a degree  
in history, how come we’re not taught some of these facts that are  
laid on the cutting room floor?"

http://hnn.us/articles/121083.html


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