Just how much of a Nazi was Philip Johnson?

[Joseph Tracy]

It’s never easy to ask forgiveness or admit you were wrong.
> On Nov 8, 2018, at 4:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's easy to ask for forgiveness after your Fascist Champion has been
> defeated and repudiated.
> 
> "“Later he would rather unconvincingly justify his attraction to the Nazis
> in sexual terms, as a kind of homoerotic fascination with the Nazi
> aesthetic: all those chiseled blond men in jackboots and pressed uniforms.
> It was easier to whitewash sexual desire than the egregious social and
> political ideas that truly captivated him.”Mark Lamster, pg. 114
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:12 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Come on, the guy later described his infatuation with the Nazis as
>> "unbelievable stupidity", and said "I don't know how to expiate guilt"
>> which suggests he paid a lifelong price for that 'stupidity'.
>> 
>> On 08/11/2018 20:10, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>> The fall of another Crystal Palace.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:58 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've been to see the New Canaan house, so I knew of him, his name,
>>>> that he was a top flight architect, but I'd NO IDEA about this aspect
>>>> of his life.
>>>> 
>>>> I did, however, know that he was gay. I guess that was more shocking
>>>> and worthy of mentioning than him being a Nazi somehow.
>>>> 
>>>> Jerky
>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:50 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:26 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
>>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> What... wait... the architect?!
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:41 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> https://archpaper.com/2018/11/mark-lamster-philip-johnson-man-glass-house/
>>>>>>> Quotes from The Man in the Glass House, released today, author Mark
>>>>>>> Lamster, that provide insight into Philip Johnson's Nazi past:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> “The Nazis were ‘Daylight into the ever-darkening atmosphere of
>>>>>>> contemporary America.’” Philip Johnson, pg. 165
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> “Submission to an artistic dictator is better than an anarchy of
>>>> selfish
>>>>>>> personal opinion.” PJ, pg. 93
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> “When interviewed in 1942, Johnson’s former secretary Ruth Merrill
>>>> told the
>>>>>>> FBI that Johnson believed ‘the fate of the country’ rested on his
>>>>>>> shoulders, and that he wanted to be the ‘Hitler’ in the United
>>>> States.”
>>>>>>>  ML, pg. 139
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> David Morris
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