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Cold War redux (John Kenneth Galbraith, W.H. Auden,
Nicholas Nabokov)
Nicholas Nabokov)
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[EDNOTE. Sandy Klein sends this link to a current essay in The Nation
(May 29, 2006) on the death of John Kenneth Galbraith, which links his
life to those of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Reverend William Sloane
Coffin, who also died recently. -- SES]
The liberal media by Eric Alterman
Three Liberal Lives
[. . .] Galbraith moved in and out of government. In 1945 he helped
write the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (with co-workers W.H.
Auden and Nicholas Nabokov). The report concluded that US and British
saturation bombing did not significantly disrupt the Nazi economy or
break its will, something Galbraith tried to explain to Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson as he worked energetically and tirelessly, albeit
unsuccessfully, to talk both men out of their faulty assumptions about
Vietnam. [. . .]
Here's a link to the entire article:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060529/alterman
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(May 29, 2006) on the death of John Kenneth Galbraith, which links his
life to those of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Reverend William Sloane
Coffin, who also died recently. -- SES]
The liberal media by Eric Alterman
Three Liberal Lives
[. . .] Galbraith moved in and out of government. In 1945 he helped
write the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (with co-workers W.H.
Auden and Nicholas Nabokov). The report concluded that US and British
saturation bombing did not significantly disrupt the Nazi economy or
break its will, something Galbraith tried to explain to Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson as he worked energetically and tirelessly, albeit
unsuccessfully, to talk both men out of their faulty assumptions about
Vietnam. [. . .]
Here's a link to the entire article:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060529/alterman
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm