Word: unpopularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-re-published for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the winning of the Southwest...
...Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-republished for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the wild and woolly winning of the Southwest...
Johnson's overriding problem-and the nation's-is, of course, Viet Nam. The war there has not yet become a divisively unpopular one, as did Korea by 1952, but it is a gnawing, worrisome affair, more so because this is an election year. Already it is consuming not only money and manpower but vast stores of the nation's time and energy. Some time in 1966, the U.S. must decide what it hopes to achieve with this huge expenditure. It must decide where it is headed in Viet Nam and the rest of Asia, and whether...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling if biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising constitutionalist whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to the Lincoln Administration's wartime measures made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
Weighty Man. He thus became, in the '30s, a war hawk against the rising threat of Hitlerism, as later he was to be unpopular as a premature anti-Communist-he is still firmly opposed to negotiation with Russia except from a position of towering U.S. strength, and suspicious even of quiescent coexistence. But Strausz-Hupé has been considered wise and knowledgeable enough to have been consulted on many weighty affairs, including the writing of West Germany's constitution. He urged Navy Secretary Forrestal to make a show of American power in China in 1946, and argues that...