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Islands in the Main. The unhappy exception to the expanding national experience, says Author Boorstin, was the South. Its cities were not intellectual and cultural centers. Its planter-family leadership was generally rural and withdrawn. Its economy was agrarian and tied increasingly to a single crop. Its immigrants (the Negroes) were never assimilated, but were held apart in an arbitrary and bifurcated social structure. Its legal system depended on a punctilious, vague, and largely unwritten code of honor. And its preachments on the state's right of secession nourished a colonial mentality in the South long after the rest...
Andrew Johnson, argues Stampp, was a class-conscious Jacksonian. He nourished the self-made man's hate of the aristocratic planter class. This gave him a superficial bond of allegiance to the Radicals. But Johnson wished to thrust the poor Southern whites upward, and cared not a whit for the Negroes. When Johnson's aim became clear, many Republicans thought they had been betrayed and turned against him. Johnson's difficulties with the Congress multiplied when, through his ineptness, the planter class, not the yoemanry, gained ascendence in the Southern states. The aristocrats proceeded to enact the Black Codes, stripping...
...even had a man: Antonio Guzmán, 54, a prosperous planter and one of the few Dominicans with any claim to neutrality. Guzmán was known as an outspoken antiCommunist, served in Bosch's Administration as Minister of Agriculture. A few days before the Bundy mission to Santo Domingo, Guzmán was secretly flown to Washington for talks with U.S. officials, apparently passed muster, and was flown home again. On its flight to the Dominican Republic, the Bundy mission stopped in Puerto Rico and won Bosch's approval of Guzmán. Rebel Leader Caama...
...slipping through jungle are still hard to stop. Two months ago, a French planter in South Viet Nam was captured by the Viet Cong. Before he was freed, he reports, his captors were bombed for 17 days but kept moving. Total guerrilla casualties: one dead. Further, as was shown in Korea, masses of manpower can repair roads and makeshift bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready...
Manhattan is riddled with cute shoplets run by cute young men who know just how to turn Grandmother's laundry hamper into the most amusing planter for the living room. Real brass bedsteads might as well be made of solid gold, and signed Tiffany lamps, which sold for $100-$150 ten years ago, now cost...