Posts Tagged ‘ General Curtis Lemay ’

The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay, Part V: Vietnam, Wallace and Nuclear War

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
With this article I wrap up my review of Lemay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay by Warren Kozak. "Cometh the hour, cometh the man," I've said many times during this narrative of the life and wars of General Curtis Lemay (1906-1990). And when the hour has passed? Well, ...read more

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The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay, Part IV: Vietnam and President Johnson

Oct 12th, 2009 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
From what deep wells of events flow the rivers of our time? By what path did the muse of history arrive here, at our front door? Where are the roots, for example, of monetary inflation? What pushed the U.S. into its modern de-industrialization? Along what road did the world travel ...read more

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Review of Lemay The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay, Part III

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Politics
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The Second World War had many dark hours. And in the crucible of desperation, the U.S. found its man to wage war from the air, Gen. Curtis Lemay. Who Was This Man? The hour. The man. But let’s pause, and ask again who was this man? ...read more

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A Review of “Lemay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay”

Sep 8th, 2009 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Politics
“He never fit the image of the American flyboy – dashing, handsome and suave,” writes author Warren Kozak in the prologue to his remarkable new biography of General Curtis Lemay (1906–1990). “He was, instead, dark, brooding, and forbidding. He rarely smiled, he spoke even less, and when he did, his ...read more

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