Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers
In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few ......
Journalist Keyes Beech was sometimes accused of being a war lover. He denied the charge. Wars, he said, just kept happening on his watch. "You may hope that they'll go out of fashion, but you can't just ignore them." His accusers weren't entirely wrong, however. Even friends acknowledged that he liked to be where the action was. Keyes Beech saw a ......
Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy ......
Black Market Intimacies reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy ......
The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Korea's "economic miracle" and the decline of US industrial might Standardizing Empire traces the origins of today's United States-led capitalist world economy. The nation's foreign policy during the Cold War saw two unprecedented developments: the continuous global ......
The Korean War and the Roots of America's Ideological Divisions
A deeply researched political history that finds a new origin story to today's deeply entrenched partisanship. Cash reminds us that the "forgotten war" in Korea was also the occasion for the "forgotten debate" between liberals and conservatives. When it comes to the origins of today's sharp partisan divide, most have pointed to the usual ......
Highlighting hypocrisy of US Civil Rights oppression while fighting for Korean freedom The Korean War is commonly known as the 'forgotten war' because it supposedly had little impact on American culture in comparison to World War II or the American War in Vietnam. Yet from 1950-1953, the conflict produced vigorous anti-war activism, ......
Highlighting hypocrisy of US Civil Rights oppression while fighting for Korean freedom The Korean War is commonly known as the 'forgotten war' because it supposedly had little impact on American culture in comparison to World War II or the American War in Vietnam. Yet from 1950-1953, the conflict produced vigorous anti-war activism, ......
