After McClellan was removed as Commanding General of the Army in March , 1862 , and until Halleck took up that post in July , Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton personally directed the armies . They conceived and supervised ...
This is a story not of simple corruption but of the unexpected origins of a more subtle and, in many ways, more worrisome disfiguring of our political system and society.
12 Robert Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (New York: Free Press, 1999), p. 7. 13 John Costello, The Pacific War (New York: HarperCollins, 1982), pp. 125–26. 14 Admiral James Richardson, commander of the ...
Tom Engelhardt' creator of the vital website TomDispatch.com' takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to late last night' this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.
The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.