Truth Is a Lonely Warrior

by James Perloff

Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you where the mass media won’t.

Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine?

Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury?

After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short – the commanders at Pearl Harbor – want to be court-martialed?

Why was the Soviet Union given control of North Korea after World War II, when the Soviets did nothing to win the war in the Pacific?

What did Congressional Medal of Honor recipient James Stockdale reveal about Tonkin Gulf (the event used to justify intervention in Vietnam)?• How did “Operation Rockingham” lead America into the Iraq war?

Since its founding in 1921, what small organization has produced 21 Secretaries of Defense/War, 19 Treasury Secretaries, 18 Secretaries of State, and 16 CIA directors?

How did Jimmy Carter go from a generally unknown figure to Presidential nominee in just seven months?

Why has America had decades of destructive inflation (understated recently by the Consumer Price Index), when there was zero NET inflation from the days of the Pilgrims until the early 20th century?

 

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