Posts Tagged ‘ World War II ’

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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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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Silver Currency

May 16th, 2008 | By Byron King | Category: Currencies
Are you old enough to remember when the U.S. used silver coins? I am. U.S. coins used to contain 90 percent silver. In some ways, it was a sign of mutual respect between the people and their government. The people trusted the U.S. government to keep an honest currency. And ...read more

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