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"The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World by John O'Sullivan"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the Soviet economy had declined from 1968 to 1980 to the point that the Soviets couldn't crush an already occupied country, why give John Paul II, Ronnie and Maggie credit for winning the Cold War? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that a non-workable economic system lost the Cold War?

c23

2/24/07, 7:07 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Read the book--and find out! :)

2/24/07, 9:48 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This fetish for changing the world! Seems related to the alleged need for "creative destruction." Mustn't stay still! Tear down! Then build! Then tear down! Then build! Then...

On this view, the world perpetually requires repair or restructuring in its every aspect. The Jews call this "tikkum olum" (repair the world).

This view is not necessarily necessary or inevitable. There are other views. One is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." However, we won't get much of this from the New York publishing world - unless Jeff Foxworthy or his equivalent is spoofing it.

The Broken Window Fallacy of Bastiat/Hazlitt seems related as well. Smash the window (or Iraq)? Why? So we can replace (rebuild) it: this will create jobs! Certainly it will create something to talk about and fret over - and new books to sell.

2/24/07, 4:26 PM

Anonymous Aaron Haspel said...

Give Andy of I, Ectomorph a little credit here; the man's on your blogroll after all:

http://iectomorph.blogspot.com/2006/12/changing-world-one-book-at-time.html

2/24/07, 5:31 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

John O'Sullivan edited National Review back before it was a neo-con organ.


The individual in the past 15 years Im most dissapointed in is none other than William F. Buckley. How could he have let his once fine magazine be infiltrated and taken over by neo-Trotskyite.....oops, I mean J Pod..........

2/24/07, 5:37 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"If the Soviet economy had declined from 1968 to 1980 to the point that the Soviets couldn't crush an already occupied country, why give John Paul II, Ronnie and Maggie credit for winning the Cold War? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that a non-workable economic system lost the Cold War?"

It didn't just end - it ended almost without bloodshed. Also, there is no telling how the autocratic "Chinese" path would have turned out if the Russians had tried that instead. But who knows?

2/25/07, 7:45 AM

Anonymous joshrandall said...

Im currently hard at work on my new book!"Chester A. Arthur:The Man Who Left The World Pretty Much As he Found It-Except Maybe For A Few Tweaks Here And There" My editor is Judith Regan! :)

2/25/07, 11:39 AM

Anonymous Ace said...

The tomb that changed the world?

2/25/07, 4:21 PM

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