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Title: The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones ISBN: 1-58731-775-3 Publisher: St. Augustine's Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: heavy Catholic bias clouds pseudo-scholarship
Comment: This is, frankly, one of the WORST books I have ever read on any topic, let alone urban problems. After the first chapter, it is apparent that E. Michael Smith has an agenda at least as pervasive as that of the WASP's he constantly derides in the book for things going far beyond "ethnic cleansing," such as having liberated sexual mores that caused them to "lack the inhibitions necessary to govern properly." His goal is to put ALL of the blame for urban problems today solely on the shoulders of the WASP elites--which, by extension, applies to anyone of Protestant beliefs, as he connects the supposedly "morally decadent" Protestants and Quakers (whom he derides for lacking structure in their religion), in addition to the blacks who migrated from the South in search of employment during WWII (and who also happened to be overwhelmingly Protestant) with the "moral decay" that resulted in the cities as a result of "anti-Catholic" policies. Smith also blames the racial violence--including lynching of blacks--caused by attempts at blacks to integrate into the monolithically ethnic and Catholic neighborhoods on the "violent criminal culture" of the South, which blacks supposedly transplanted with themselves to the cities; he adds that blacks were purposefull "corrupted" by the factory managers who paid them much better wages than they had ever received in the Jim Crow South, which had presented the "structure to keep their urges in check." He does not acknowledge that the Catholic ethnics in fact had driven out other groups themselves when they first moved into the neighborhoods. and that the neighborhoods already had many of problems that blacks purportedly introduced. Gangs, for example, were prevalent in the Irish neighborhoods, in particular, and partook in blatantly illegal activity, such as drag-racing. The impression one receives is that, beyond poverty, the Catholic ethnic neighborhoods were some sort of morally upright utopia that was irreparably corrupted by Protestant and black influences, when in fact the neighborhoods were at least as much to blame due to their unwillingness to accept blacks, or even other Catholic ethnics of different nationalities, as equals. Many upwardly mobile blacks were forced to remain in true slum conditions in central city ghettos that, ironically, had once been occupied by the ethnics before they moved on to somewhat more affluent neighborhoods.
Also discrediting his work--which starkly contrasts with his previous work, which has nothing to do with urban problems and everything to do with his interpretation of "morality" and "decadence," which he arbitrarily applies to urban problems--is his labeling FDR and his "WASP allies" (never mind that FDR was Dutch) as "social enginners" who were "trying to root out Fascism"--implicitly making them socialists, in Smith's eyes. Even worse, he does not acknowledge the problems facing not just Catholics, but also Protestants and Lutherans of non-British descent--making this much more of a religious division than an ethnic division, when in fact the opposite was true.
A much better analysis of urban problems--acknowledging the grievances and ideals and hopes of all groups invovled--is "Common Ground."
Rating: 5
Summary: Now I Know Why Detroit is a Wasteland
Comment: The destruction of Detroit, Philadelphia, the south side of Chicago, and all the major cities of the Northeast was all planned. In the early part of the 20th century the WASP plutocrats saw that the Catholic urban ethnics would soon take over the major cities because they were having large families, so they used urban planning funded with government and foundation money to drive the Catholics out of the cities after World War II. E. Michael Jones has put the whole sorry tale together in his new book, and the words of the elite urban planners, themselves, are used to convict them. If you thought that the rapid suburbanization of this country after World War II was a natural occurrence, then read this book. You will also learn how the "car culture" and the interstate highway system fits into the scheme. My Great-Grandfather rode the streetcar to work in Detroit. He spent pennies a day on transportation. Now we are all spread out and dependent on cars costing thousands a year to get us to work on long commutes via the clogged freeways.
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Title: The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World by Srdja Trifkovic, Serge Trifkovic ISBN: 1928653111 Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: William F. Buckley, Jr.: Pied Piper for the Establishment by John F. McManus ISBN: 1881919064 Publisher: Amer Opinion Bookservice Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: An Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation by George O'Brien ISBN: 0971828628 Publisher: IHS Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Monsters from the Id: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film by E. Michael Jones ISBN: 1890626066 Publisher: Spence Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Catholicism and American Freedom: A History by John T. McGreevy ISBN: 0393047601 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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