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Title: Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942 by Garet Garrett, Bruce Ramsey ISBN: 0-87004-433-8 Publisher: Caxton Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Summary: A sixty year old treasure of truth uncovered
Comment: This book is probably more relevant today than when its initial version was published over sixty years ago in a series of editorials in "The Saturday Evening Post" by Garet Garrett. If you think the current debate about whether President Bush "lied" about going to war with Iraq is interesting, you need to read this book. When FDR was running for his unprecedented third term, he won on a platform of keeping the USA out of the wars ravaging the rest of the world.
In October, just a couple weeks before the 1940 presidential election, FDR said "The United States is at peace and will remain at peace. We will not participate in foreign wars. There is no secret plan or agreement that would or could involve the nation in any war." FDR was elected on that platform, with polls showing the vast majority of Americans declining to get sucked into another war to rescue the Europeans from the marauding criminals like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Japan. Of course history has shown that to be an enormous lie. This book shows how FDR cleverly inched us into the war, first with "Lend Lease" then armed convoys, then the oil embargo of Japan, which forced Japan's hand and made Pearl Harbor inevitable.
Unlike the shrill accusations against Bush today, Garrett only points to established facts, and not second guessing about whether there may have been intelligence failures. And he did this while events were unfolding in a world that most of us have forgotten ever existed. The loans to the Europeans to keep them from starving to death after WW I were repudiated and American generosity was turned against us by Europeans who thought we were just greedy to want our loans repaid. When Hitler was at their throats because the UK and France and others refused to bear the cost of defending themselves, it was America's "obligation" to save them again. One can see that there were many alternatives to expending American blood and treasure and forcing the US into war, not the least of which was to let Hitler and Stalin, the greatest criminals in world history, fight themselves until they both were eliminated from the world stage. Given the ingratitude the Europeans have repeatedly shown for our sacrifice, it is an interesting scenario to contemplate.
The editorials also cover much history regarding Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations, the "America First" groups, the American Communist Party as a puppet of Stalin, and much more. The book shows the extraordinary, behind the scenes coordination of the administration and "outside" groups to march the country to a war it did not want, and thought it was voting against when it reelected FDR.
This book is a great source of many good quotes, and shows why Congress has never declared an official war since then.
One facinating sidelight is a speech given by then Attny General Robert Jackson, soon to become Supreme Court Justice, and he of the famous quote that the "Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact" advocating legislating from the bench and using judicial powers to act more like dictators than jurists. He might well be called the grandfather of the liberal judicial activists who permeate the bench today.
Of course FDR may well have been right, and leading Americans into a war they said they did not want, in spite of themselves, may be one of the reasons that democracy survived the onslaught of the totalitarian criminals who ruled Germany and the Soviet Union, but if so, FDR must also then be called the greatest liar in the history the United States, too.
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Title: Salvos Against the New Deal by Garet Garrett, Bruce Ramsey ISBN: 0870044257 Publisher: Caxton Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I by Thomas Fleming ISBN: 046502467X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil by James Bovard ISBN: 1403963681 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 06 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Bubble That Broke the World by Garet Garrett ISBN: 0870341219 Publisher: Fraser Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Garet Garrett's: The People's Pottage by Garrett ISBN: 0840379943 Publisher: Truth Seeker Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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