Here is the immortal description of George Eliot by the young Henry James: "magnificently ugly, deliciously hideous. She has a low forehead, a dull grHere is the immortal description of George Eliot by the young Henry James: "magnificently ugly, deliciously hideous. She has a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth, full of uneven teeth, and a chin and jaw-bone qui n'en finessent pas. . . . Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her. Yes, behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking."
Moral of the story: You don't have to be beautiful to be sexy....more
I really hate giving this book two stars. I wanted to like it so badly. I love David Foster Wallace, and I wanted to feel that love in the book. But II really hate giving this book two stars. I wanted to like it so badly. I love David Foster Wallace, and I wanted to feel that love in the book. But I did not. I found it impossible to read. It was just a transcript of tape recordings. And a very literal transcript, including mistakes when speaking.
I recommend the movie more than the book: The End of the Tour with Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky. The ending in the movie was far more effective than in the book.
I loved the title of the book.
I loved the "afterword" which came at the beginning.
On the morning of Plath's suicide, she poured cups of milk and arranged helpings of bread, then carried the food up a flight of stairs to her childrenOn the morning of Plath's suicide, she poured cups of milk and arranged helpings of bread, then carried the food up a flight of stairs to her children's room. They were around the ages of 3 and 1. She set it within reach of their beds, and pulled their window wide open. Then she closed the door to the room and sealed it all around with masking tape. On a torn piece of shelf paper, she printed a note giving the telephone number of their doctor--using two different pens: it seems she had to hunt for the telephone number. Then she taped the note to the pram standing in the room next to where the children lay asleep. Her last written words concerned her children's safety. (I have to say, committing suicide with your little children upstairs leaves me a bit cold.)
Then she returned downstairs to the kitchen and blocked the windowsills and entry door with towels and clothing, before pulling down the oven door and kneeling deep into the gas. Her last action on her own behalf was to fold a little cloth and place it under her cheek, for comfort while she drew her last breaths.
A nurse was due to arrive in the morning to help with the children. I have heard people say they think Sylvia hoped for a rescue. The nurse needed a workman to help opening the door. The evidence indicates she had every intention of killing herself.
Ted Hughes's next lover--Assia Wevill--also killed herself. She also killed her little girl fathered by Ted Hughes. They took pills in a drink and Assia turned on the gas.
Then the mother of Ted Hughes died suddenly after learning of Assia and her daughter Shura dying by suicide.
Ted Hughes is supposed to have destroyed Plath's journals. He claims he did not want to have the children read them. Still, no excuse. ...more
An excellent book for high school students and above. It covers what we know, don't know, and are unsure of in the life of Crazy Horse. An accessible An excellent book for high school students and above. It covers what we know, don't know, and are unsure of in the life of Crazy Horse. An accessible biography.
An interesting symbiosis developed between tribes and traders. The English anthropologist and myth theorist Lord Raglan discussed the fragility of hunting cultures in his book How Came Civilization. He points out that people who had been adept for generations at making bone fishhooks lose this skill quickly once they are supplied with metal fishhooks. What a perceptive realization.
There never was and never would be a chief of all the Sioux. The government often misread this and tried to reach out to a leader who could sign a treaty for everyone.
The Army almost always overreacted and punished any Indian they could whenever something went wrong.
The railroads helped bring about the end of the Indians as much as the military. Buffalo hunters could ride into the heart of buffalo country. Within ten years of the railroads, the buffalo were all gone. And that, of course, spelled the end of the Plains Indians. ...more
For me, this was a masterpiece in digressions. A biography of T. H. White, personal stories and grief, hawking, nature. I listened to the audiobook reFor me, this was a masterpiece in digressions. A biography of T. H. White, personal stories and grief, hawking, nature. I listened to the audiobook read by the author. ...more
Charles Darwin did not invent the theory of evolution. That idea had been around for a long time because it is an obvious truth, no matter what anyoneCharles Darwin did not invent the theory of evolution. That idea had been around for a long time because it is an obvious truth, no matter what anyone tells you who does not believe in science. Darwin was the inventor of evolution through natural selection. Even that idea was being discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace. And Darwin's theory has gone through a few centuries of rigorous scientific scrutiny. So please stop with the nonsense for those who still have not caught on.
The young Darwin apparently loved to shoot animals. He was quite the snipe hunter. Maybe it helped him to take an interest in nature.
Darwin learned early in life to be wary of disclosing his scientific discoveries to others. The biologist Robert Grant (1793-1874) stole some of his findings about oysters. But it was Grant who spoke to him about "evolution" based on the theories of the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). It was a great shock for the young Darwin.
"I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible."--Charles Darwin.
"Considering how fiercely I have been attacked by the orthodox, it seems ludicrous that I once intended to be a clergyman."--CD.
"My mind has been since leaving England a perfect hurricane of delight & astonishment."--CD.
Darwin's finches is the term used to what is believed gave Darwin the clue to natural selection. But it was not until he returned to England that he understood the significance of those birds.
In July 1836, he made his first sketch of an evolutionary tree in secret with the words written nearby: "I think. . . " How beautiful is that.
"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals."--CD.
Darwin's "favourite child" Annie died at age 9. It is believed he had very little use for any God talk after that.
Darwin believed that even the human eye as complex as it is could be explained through natural selection. He showed how the most simple of beginnings--a nerve sensitive to light--could be seen as one end of a long chain of developments in optics.
"A bench of bishops is the devil's flower garden."--CD.
Samuel Wilberforce, the bishop of Oxford, was described by Disraeli as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous," leading to his nickname Soapy Sam.
Thomas Huxley championed Darwin's cause before both scientific and religious crowds and became "Darwin's bulldog."
Darwin also spoke of "sexual selection." The female picks the red colored male just like my wife likes a particular tie on me.
Carl Lorenz called Darwin the "patron saint" of psychology.
I love that Darwin condemned the Victorian fad for spiritualism and seances as nothing more than confidence tricks and parlor games.
Darwin was buried at Westminster Abbey, an embarrassing reminder that he was never honored in life by the state. I visited his grave and am a total admirer of him.
In 1915, Elizabeth Reid, also known as Lady Hope, wrote an article for a Baptist newspaper in which she claimed to have visited Darwin before his death and he begged her for forgiveness and recanted his theories. The story is total nonsense and exists to this day.
When Darwin saw an orchid from Madagascar, he predicted a moth existed that had an 11-inch proboscis to get at the nectar. Sure enough, in 1903, the moth was found.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."--CD. What a great quote to end on in these troubled times. ...more
In one section, Blake is listening to a discourse by the painter Joshua Reynolds. According to a diarist of the time who was with Blake, the poet saysIn one section, Blake is listening to a discourse by the painter Joshua Reynolds. According to a diarist of the time who was with Blake, the poet says, "I consider Reynolds's Discourses . . . as the Simulation of the Hypocrite who Smiles particularly where he means to Betray. His Praise of Rafael is like the Hysteric Smile of Revenge." And then as Reynolds goes on to state that Raphael learned from the example of Michelangelo, Blake says, "I do not believe that Rafael taught Mich. Angelo or that Mich. Ang taught Rafael. any more than I believe that the Rose teaches the Lilly how to grow or the Apple tree teaches the Pear tree how to grow fruit." I think this passage could be a summary of Blake's artistic philosophy.
As Reynolds talks, Blake continues to damn him: "Abundance of Stupidity. Infernal Falsehood. Damnd Fool. A Polishd Villain. A Lie. Here is Nonsense." But he also says, "Knowledge of Ideal Beauty is Not to be Acquired It is Born with us Innate Ideas are in Every Man Born with him . . . Man Brings All that he has or Can have Into the World with him. Man is Born Like a Garden ready Planted & Sown This World is too poor to produce one Seed . . . He who does not Know Truth at Sight is unworthy of Her Notice . . . The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts traveld to Heaven Is No Artist."
Blake is described in The Examiner as an "unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement" and whose catalogue exhibited "the wild ebullitions of a distempered brain."
And Robert Southey described him as a "painter of great but insane genius."
George Richmond said that before "Blake began a picture he used to fall on his knees and pray that it might be successful." And walking with Blake felt "as if he were walking with the Prophet Isaiah."
William Blake: "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy."
Patrons like John Linnell helped Blake and his wife to get along. It was Linnell who paid for the funeral. ...more
I love Camus. No author has had a greater influence on my life. And his book L'Estranger or The Stranger has no equal in books that influenced me. I rI love Camus. No author has had a greater influence on my life. And his book L'Estranger or The Stranger has no equal in books that influenced me. I read it in college and consider it one of the greatest reading experiences of my life.
So I was looking forward to this biography. Apparently, Elizabeth Hawes also loves Camus. So the subtitle of the book--A Romance--refers to her love for him. Keep in mind, she never met him, but, like me, she just loves him. Great. But to be perfectly blunt, I don't really give a shit. I wanted to read about Camus, not her. Her constant references to herself rarely helped. She even ended the book with herself, an unpardonable sin.
Here are a few takeaways about Camus:
His name rarely shows up in the familiar roundup of artists who suffered from tuberculosis, such as Keats, Shelley, the Brontes, the Brownings, Chopin, Chekhov, Mansfield, Stevenson. He probably would have had an early death anyway.
There was the unpleasant feud between Sartre and Camus. I am totally on Camus's side. Sartre was just a flat out dick. As my mother would have called him: "a peckerhead." Sidenote: I had a great mother.
I never realized Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Mandarins with characters modeled on Camus and Sartre. When Camus was asked why he didn't respond to her put down of him, he responded, "Because you don't discuss things with a sewer."
Camus was an Algerian. A big issue in his life is why he didn't take a firmer position on the war with Algeria. I'm okay with that and always have been. I understand and love diplomacy, negotiations, moderation. He believed there should be no negotiations with terrorists, and he believed in reconciliation. He probably missed out on the idea of preparing Algeria for independence long before this, just like with Vietnam.
Camus "could not support oppression in Algeria nor one that would abandon the Arab people to even greater misery and tear the French settlers from their age-old roots." He tried to be the voice of reason. He could not join any of the extreme camps but there was no middle group, so he basically withdrew. As he said, "the true cause of our madness lies in the ways and workings of our political and intellectual society, I have decided to no longer participate in the unending polemics."
His friend the Muslim writer Mouloud Ferraoun who worked throughout the war for Franco-Muslim solidarity in Algeria, was assassinated by the OAS, along with five other liberal educators in Algiers on February 1962. The OAS was a right-wing French dissident paramilitary organization.
Although Camus was stoic, an Algerian friend said he had been "hurt to the point of injury" by the attacks on his character. There are hints of "persecution and betrayal" in his letters.
It was this controversial remark that got him in trouble: "If a terrorist throws a bomb into the Belcourt market where my mother shops and it kills her, . . . in order to defend justice I would at the same time have to defend terrorism." He was even ridiculed for his attitude toward his mother.
Camus thought about refusing the Nobel Prize. He felt Malraux deserved it. He would face a new round of polemics and ridicule, especially about his mother comment and the sense that he did not deserve the Nobel.
Susan Sontag attributed Camus's appeal to his "moral beauty." His ethics and his desire to be ethical, what he called his "noble feelings in search of noble acts," is still what often draws people to him until today.
Perhaps his best friend, Roger Quillot, committed suicide with sleeping pills. His wife also took pills but survived. Camus spent a lifetime denying suicide. Quillot explained his decision: "Will people understand if I say that our mutual choice of a voluntary death is an act of both liberty and the love of life in the fullest?" I don't know if anyone understands that, but I definitely do.
Camus's favorite writers were Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche.
Camus referred to dying in a car crash "une mort imbecile." How absurd is his dying in a car crash. He had train tickets but was persuaded at the last moment to drive with Michel Gallimard. Camus hated speed and cars. He was a passenger. It was a straight road. The car zigzagged off into a tree and into another one. Camus's neck was broken and he died instantly. Gallimard died later. The accident has never been fully explained....more
Excellent audio tape read, as always, by the master historian himself. I was surprised at how small a reaction the country made to this whole flying tExcellent audio tape read, as always, by the master historian himself. I was surprised at how small a reaction the country made to this whole flying thing at first. I just assumed it was a big deal. ...more
Abridged audio tape read by the master historian himself, David McCullough. And he has an excellent reading voice. The audio also included actual tapeAbridged audio tape read by the master historian himself, David McCullough. And he has an excellent reading voice. The audio also included actual tapes of Truman speeches. A truly fascinating president. Accomplished quite a bit. Of course, he will always be remembered for using atomic bombs on Japan. The book goes through the difficulties of that decision to save the lives of American soldiers who at the time were fighting a brutal battle to the death on Okinawa against an enemy that just would not surrender. He also resisted the pressure to use nuclear bombs on China during the Korean conflict. So much happened during his presidency. Well worth listening to. ...more
Audio tape read by Richard Thomas, eternally famous for playing John Boy on The Waltons.
I was surprised at how much rivalry there was. I expected morAudio tape read by Richard Thomas, eternally famous for playing John Boy on The Waltons.
I was surprised at how much rivalry there was. I expected more of the "team" aspect.
Hearing Thomas read about Lincoln's death was sad, even today.
Northern generals were quite awful, especially McClellan. The war could have been ended earlier if they had Lee on the northern side. It wasn't until Grant that the tide turned. Very frustrating for Lincoln.
Praise is always heaped on Lee. And he may have been an honorable man, but I find it hard to defend him. He should have stuck with his country instead of his state and slavery.
Looking for a good one-liner for a party? Try this: "The Republican party is the party of Lincoln." BWAA-HAA-HAA-HAA! Sorry, but really folks, this Republican party of today is so far removed from Abraham Lincoln. The sea change occurred when the southern racist Democrats changed parties after passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Can you imagine Lincoln denying climate change? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln gerrymandering black areas to deny political power? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln disenfranchising voters? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln opposing science? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln being supported by white supremacists? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln taking health care away from poor people? I can't.
Can you imagine Lincoln constantly attacking government? I can't.
A truly great book about a truly great man. ...more
When ABC ran stories about "Mountain Dew Mouth," Appalachian citizens met it with scorn. They felt it was no one's business. What folly. It only causeWhen ABC ran stories about "Mountain Dew Mouth," Appalachian citizens met it with scorn. They felt it was no one's business. What folly. It only causes them to suffer more. Uncomfortable truths are avoided. Better truths are pretended to exist. Then men like Donald Trump are treated like saviors.
All the talk about hard work, but 30 percent of the young men work less than 20 hours a week. They are not aware of their own "laziness." Most folks talk about working more than they actually work.
To take insults was to go home without your honor or dignity.
His Christian church attacked the gay lobby and agenda, the war on Christmas, evolutionary theory, Clinton liberalism, and extramarital sex.
Rich people are considerably more likely to breast-feed their children, so poor parents have to add in the cost of formula.
People bought soda with food stamps and sold it at a discount for cash. They used cash for liquor and cigarettes. A large majority of the people lived off the dole. It's funny how this area of the country pays less in taxes and gets more from the taxpayer and complains all the effing time about taxes. Then they started moving over to the Republican party and supporting rich people. Why? For me, it's just a case of being worked over in such a way they have lost any sense of up or down. They are disoriented and being used because of it. So everything gets blamed on the "government" and Republicans make sure the government does not work well and the Democrats lose out.
When millions moved north to factory jobs, the factories closed and the former workers were trapped in these towns.
The author's world is "irrational." They spend until they go bankrupt. Nothing is left over. But his "Mamaw's" love kept him afloat. He would join the Marines and that helped him a lot.
Author describes a moment when a "dipshit in a spotty beard" started to criticize soldiers who fought in Iraq. He never shakes the college president's hand when he graduates.
There is a "cultural detachment" in his community. But they have an overwhelming appreciation for the United States. Good for them. I feel the same way. That may be part of what bugs us when we hear people popping off about the country as a whole. But the modern American meritocracy was not made for them. I feel the same way, so there are these polar feelings.
There is a hatred of the "media." That is so destructive for a democracy. Now we have a President who is a fool and encourages it.
His friends and family emailed him stories from Alex Jones about how the US government played a role in the massacre on 9/11, and how Obamacare would plant a microchip in patients as a mark of the beast, and the Newtown massacre was engineered by federal agents to control our guns, and martial law was about to arrive. At the heart of all this is a hatred of government, combined with a love of America. Weird, huh?
American working class families "experience a level of instability unseen elsewhere in the world."
I identified a bit with the author. I came from a working class family. My father was laid off once when his factory went "bankrupt" and he lost 15 years of pension. He just picked himself up and got a new job. When people ask me what restaurants we ate at, I laugh. We never ate in restaurants. What a waste of money! That's why we celebrated so much at weddings and funerals. Free food. When my mother died I took a week off. Someone asked if there was a lot of work to deal with the inheritance. I said, "Well I got the can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup." It's amazing how so many people have no clue....more
An abridged audio tape. America was so lucky to have men like Benjamin Franklin to start us off. I read his Autobiography as a high school student, anAn abridged audio tape. America was so lucky to have men like Benjamin Franklin to start us off. I read his Autobiography as a high school student, and it inspired me to be a better person. I may read it again now.
When I look at today's "conservative" movement, I am ashamed of it. It is truly a disgrace to our country. They could do well to study the lives of men like Franklin who worked hard to better himself but also to help others. He believed in good governance, in helping the poor, and--Oh the horror!--in science. ...more
This is a fly-on-the-wall book. We hear about the intimate details of Williams's private sexual and personal life. The lobotomy of his sister. More imThis is a fly-on-the-wall book. We hear about the intimate details of Williams's private sexual and personal life. The lobotomy of his sister. More importantly, we learn about the behind-the-scenes details of his plays and movie scripts.
We also learn some details about the lives of Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead. Then there is one of the great collaborations of the twentieth century with Elia Kazan.
Elizabeth Ashley reads this compact disc. She has to read the line calling her "the definitive Maggie the Cat."
A must read for anyone interested in the history of twentieth century American drama. The author is John Lahr, a senior drama critic for The New Yorker. ...more
Unfortunately, in Satchel Paige's time there were no radar guns to measure the speed of a pitched ball, but we do know these two facts:
1. Satchel thrUnfortunately, in Satchel Paige's time there were no radar guns to measure the speed of a pitched ball, but we do know these two facts:
1. Satchel threw so fast, sometimes the ball disappeared before it reached the catcher's mitt to the astonishment of everyone at the park. Now that is fast!
2. Satchel threw so fast, sometimes if a batter was lucky enough for his bat to strike the ball, the wood would start on fire. I ain't never seen no modern pitcher do that.
Owner Bill Veek came out of this book quite well. I always liked the guy. Jackie Robinson not so well. All of the black ball players who deserved a chance to play had to wait. Maybe it needed an asshole like Jackie to put up with the taunts and not react, at least not at the beginning.
Some Satchel quotes:
1. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? 2. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. 3. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. ...more
When I was in the military, I read every book I could get my hands on about Malcolm X. I would have loved to have been a helper for Mr. Marable as he When I was in the military, I read every book I could get my hands on about Malcolm X. I would have loved to have been a helper for Mr. Marable as he gathered information to write this book. It is now the definitive biography of Malcolm. A true masterpiece of biography.
Marable even makes a point of critiquing the Alex Haley book the Autobiography of Malcolm X. He does not mess with words when he points out the weaknesses of that book. He tries not to make the same mistakes. There is so much effort in this book to get out as much information as possible. Marable is not afraid to search for the truth, or as close to the truth as he can arrive at, no matter where it takes him. For example, he is not afraid to point out the racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, and corruption of the Nation of Islam. If there is a flaw, it may be the effort to point out the final changes that Malcolm went through at the end of his life. He was still a flawed man.
One story I found fascinating was that of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali. In the first Clay/Liston fight, it was Malcolm who stood up for Clay. Elijah Muhammad backed Liston. In the fifth round of that fight, a chemical got on the gloves of Liston. It then got in Clay's eyes and blinded him for the entire round. He managed to defend himself until the round ended. In the sixth, he knocked out Liston. How close he came to losing.
The Nation of Islam realized they messed up. Elijah Muhammad gave Clay the name Muhammad Ali. From that point on, they pulled Ali into their group. Although Ali would later regret his words, he denied Malcolm X. It seems that Ali did not have the courage to do battle with the powerful Elijah Muhammad.
It is also pretty clear, but not certain, that it was the Nation of Islam that was behind the assassination of Malcolm X. ...more
Main flaw for me: I'm looking for accurate information. I felt I was reading historical fiction because some of the scenes could not possibly be knownMain flaw for me: I'm looking for accurate information. I felt I was reading historical fiction because some of the scenes could not possibly be known. But no one can do Crazy Horse accurately. Excellent reading by the author on the cd. ...more
Jay Cowan was a neighbor of Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen, Colorado. Hunter is a frustrating individual--so much to admire and so much not to admire thaJay Cowan was a neighbor of Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen, Colorado. Hunter is a frustrating individual--so much to admire and so much not to admire that it is difficult to know if I like the guy or not. Ultimately, the good points stand out.
Hunter's writing technique was described as "binging on words and drugs until it was done."
He was at the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1970 at the America's Cup races, he was banned for trying to write "Fuck the Pope" on a boat. He was consumed by the campaign of 1972. In 1973 he went to write about the Super Bowl but never made it to the game yet still wrote a good story. A shark hunt in the Yucatan in 1974 anchored another book. He never made it to the Ali-Foreman fight of 1975 in Zaire. People forget his intention was to watch the fight with the President of Zaire. When that fell through, he felt no originality could come from being ringside. He was in Saigon during its fall in 1975. In 1976, he followed the campaign of Jimmy Carter.
Hunter felt that Hemingway wrote "Big-Two Hearted River" as his own epitaph. He also felt Fitzgerald did the same with The Great Gatsby. Hunter's extended suicide note began with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and ended with The Kingdom of Fear. But it was probably best summarized in "The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat." Maybe that's why he felt no need to write a suicide note when he finally shot himself.
Lawyers were fascinated by Hunter. He was the perfect legal crash test dummy. Always being exposed to potential prosecution.
Hunter loved guns and explosions. He was friends with Ronald Reagan Jr., but did not care for his father. He loved and respected Jim Brady, like everyone else who knew him. After Brady's shooting, Hunter finally showed some understanding of the need to do something about this madness.
He liked Abby Hoffman because Abby paid a $100 football bet to him. "That says a lot," said Hunter.
Hunter's speeches became less coherent. They were always difficult to understand. In 1988, he had what the New York Post described as a "full-fledged fiasco."
Cowan never heard Hunter threaten to kill himself, but others claim to have heard that. He managed to put a bullet through his head and into a cabinet behind him which left a dramatic hole that almost seemed planned. He was seated in front of his typewriter with one sheet of paper in it and typed in the center was the word "counselor." ...more
I actually used an old audio tape while driving. Shows you the kind of stuff I listen to.
A fair, even-handed biography. Very thorough. What a catastrI actually used an old audio tape while driving. Shows you the kind of stuff I listen to.
A fair, even-handed biography. Very thorough. What a catastrophic failure Maoism was. How does it happen? Part of it is losing touch with reality. Part of it is a fear of being overthrown. Part of it is believing so much in a philosophy that all discussion goes out the door. He was willing to destroy all of the historical buildings in Beijing and would rather have had all smokestacks. So he nixed a plan to have the greatest park system in the world for workers.
At least "20 million people died" in the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution. Enough said. ...more
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