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Unsurprisingly, Wills' military exemplar is the young Napoleon Bonaparte, whose dazzling early victories were based on mobility and constant attack. His antitype is the dithering Union general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid. The paradigm for politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king...
Nixon meanwhile sat out in his beach house in San Clemente, California, reading a biography of Napoleon and staring at the ocean. But he had also been listening to some of the disputed tapes, and he had found one -- the "smoking gun" -- that threatened to destroy his whole case. It was a talk with Haldeman on June 23, 1972, a time when Nixon had long pretended to know virtually nothing about the Watergate break-in just six days earlier. This tape recorded Nixon talking with Haldeman about Mitchell's involvement, ordering a cover-up, planning...
...listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...
...Jewish power to black social misery. Most Americans believe Minister Farrakhan praised Adolf Hitler and, by implication, condoned the evils done to the Jewish people. Yet this is simply wrong. As Minister Farrakhan has noted on many occasions, his statement that Hitler was "wickedly great" -- like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and Stalin -- meant that Hitler was famous for his pernicious ability to conquer, destroy and dominate others. Furthermore, Hitler hated black people with great passion. And given Minister Farrakhan's devotion to the cause of black freedom, he would not claim that Hitler was morally great. Nevertheless, the mainstream press portrayed...
Students expecting a survey of Napoleon and the Industrial Revolution were surprised to find sex the topic of the first History 10b lecture yesterday...