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...almost half a century, the Democratic Party derived its power from what it could give away. It was the party of benevolent Government, offering help for the disadvantaged and services for everyone. "In the postwar era," observes Harvard Political Economist Robert Reich, "it was possible to dispense [Government largesse] and pump [the economy] at the same time." But in the '70s and '80s, the demand for Government goodies began to outstrip the growth of the economy. Lyndon Johnson, and by extension the Democratic Party, was wrong: the U.S. was not "an endless cornucopia...
Shirer has written other books about this period, notably Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but the memoir form in this case offers far more than familiar material rechewed. This is his second book of reminiscence. The first, 20th Century Journey, published in 1976, had as its center a misty evocation of Paris in the '20s and was in some ways a familiar story worn by the telling...
Volume II has no such liability. Few Americans were on the scene as the Third Reich took form. Shirer was in Berlin, and accompanied Hitler and his entourage to Paris when the Petain government surrendered in 1940. At the start he was a newspaperman; Edward R. Murrow hired him away in 1937 to be the other half of CBS Radio's staff in Europe. Shirer's journalistic credentials eventually brought him invitations to the bizarre Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate...
...famous beaches-Omaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke and dead bodies, began the end of the thousand-year Reich...
...aged conscripts and unreliable recruits from Eastern Europe. Only 70,000 of the defenders were stationed near the targeted beaches. The Luftwaffe's fighter defenses had been seriously depleted in two years of air battles, and the remnants were in the process of being pulled back to defend the Reich itself. Three crack panzer divisions stood ready as a reserve, but Rommel could not count on them, for Hitler insisted on retaining personal control over their movements. Only recently had Rommel succeeded in organizing a crash program to install 1 million mines a month along the heavily barricaded beaches...