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...theme of the book is admirable and true: that the good of the individual follows from the good of the nation. Where Bowles falls down is that he is preoccupied with what we can have rather than how we are going to get it. The blurb on the back page states the case well: "Bowles is optimistic about the American future. He knows that we have the necessary ingredients for a fuller, more prosperous life than we have ever known. All that is needed is the understanding and determination of the people, cooperation of business, labor, and farmers, and coordination...
...Young Ricardo de la Fuente, handsome and schooled in the mannered ways of the Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only...
...atomic war NOW," by Americans United for World Government; "Let's stop feeding inflation," by the N.A.M.; "An appeal to the peoples of the world," by the Rollins College Conference on World Government; the Zionists' "Palestine ... or they perish," the Arabs' retort, "Arabs want peace"; a blurb for Birobidjan, Russia's-"Pearl of the Far East" for Jews; "An open letter to Congress," by Sponsors of Government Action against Cancer; "Shall we help the Communists to crucify Christian Spain?" by the Missouri Knights of Columbus...
...burly "Cap" Krug was talking about dollar value for goods and services, his blurb was sound. But if he was talking about quality (e.g., of men's shirts, clothing), he was talking through his hat: 1944 would go down in history as a pinch year, no matter how much money civilians spent. Nevertheless, in 1944 U.S. industry had performed prodigies...
Author McCormick believes he has repaired his academic deficiency by reading "many, many books" in his post-college years. In 50 McCosmic pages which the publisher recommends in the cover blurb as "powerful, closely-reasoned . . .sound in scholarship, plenary in concept and exhaustively documented," Colonel McCormick sets forth some of his self-taught discoveries and conclusions. Samples...