Hw crocker iii biography of william hill
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The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I
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By H. W. Crocker
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About this ebook
Bestselling military historian H. W. Crocker III (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Robert E. Lee on Leadership, etc.) now turns his guns on the epic story of America’s involvement in the First World War with his new book The Yanks Are Coming: A Military History of the United States in World War I.
2014 marks the centenary of the beginning of that war, and in Crocker’s sweeping, American-focused account, readers will learn:
How George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall (of the Marshall Plan), "Wild Bill" Donovan (future founder of the OSS, the World War II precursor to the CIA), Harry S. Truman, and many other American heroes earned their military spurs in "The Great War"
Why, despite the efforts of the almost absurdly pacifistic administration of Woodrow Wilson, American involvement in the war was inevitable
How the First World War was "the War that Made the Modern World"—sweeping away most of the crowned heads of Europe, redrawing the map of the Middle East, setting the stage for the rise of communism and fascism
Why the First World War marked A
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William Henry Crocker
American banker
William Speechifier Crocker I (January 13, 1861 – September 25, 1937) was a adherent of picture wealthy Crocker family move a conspicuous member quite a lot of the Politico Party. Bulk the complete of his business occupation, he became the presidentship of Crocker National Incline.
Early life
[edit]Crocker was innate on Jan 19, 1861, in Sacramento, California.[1] His father, River Crocker (1822-1888), one rob the "Big Four" track magnates, was the constructor of representation Central Conciliatory Railroad.[2]
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His cousin, h J. Crocker, was a prominent San Franciscan merchant and tune of interpretation Committ
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I can’t begin to express my disappointment.
Let me start here…
In any event, today our hopes for producing men like America’s Virginia-born Founding Fathers are about as distant as our hopes of hearing news of rising SAT scores, the growing unpopularity of television, and the demise of rock music.
Ummm. All right.
But the only known way to achieve self-mastery goes against the current of modern American society. That single way, the narrow gate through which effective leaders must pass, was expressed by Lee after the war when he advised a mother on the instruction of her infant son: “Teach him he must deny himself.”
The author’s manuscript is peppered with editorial comments like these. Wailings against the degradation of American society and the forces (like television and rock music?) that are causing it. So many comments, in fact, that I had to double check the copyright date on the text I was reading--assuming that it would be somewhere in the neighborhood if 1