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...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. Whether following the poetic figure of Eugene McCarthy into the night or documenting Richard Nixon's electronic conquest of the nation, White is just as diligent as he was in his accounts of the two previous presidential races. However, his protagonist lacks the kind of flamboyance that fires up White's romantic mind, and as a result, a gray pall hangs over much of the book...
...black slave trade. We could go as far as to charge him with racism and fascism. No, decidedly, it is not respect for law that he taught Europe, but the religion of force. He was fundamentally antidemocratic. Napoleon's wars of liberation degenerated into wars of conquest. He largely created 19th century nationalism...
What were our thoughts, American and Turkish alike? Simply, might all mankind be united at last and forever, with the prospect of a single world no more before us, but worlds without end whose peaceful conquest and whose endless beauty we might all share...
...their earthly ordeal seems slightly annoying and anticlimactic, the astronauts show no signs of regret. To them, the conquest of the moon was far more than a personal triumph. "We've come to the conclusion," said Aldrin on the night before splashdown, "that this has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon. More even than the efforts of one nation. We feel that this as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown. Apollo 11 has surely pointed the way for an era of exploration that carry...
Malinchista: traitor to the Mexican-American cause. From Mal-inche, the daughter of a Mexican nobleman, who became Cortes' mistress and aided the Spanish in their conquest of Mexico...