War, Money & American Memory: Myths of Virtue, Valor & Patriotism [Paperback]

Richard Earley (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0788184792 | ISBN-13: 978-0788184796 | Publication Date: November 1, 2000

Written for intelligent persons willing to face disturbing facts & to regard American lack of historical perspective a national disgrace. Americans have long had a highly inflated opinion of themselves as warriors & as a people of noble character. Since the Civil War those who avoided the danger & death of that war have set the cultural & intellectual standards. Lying & evasion of that bitter truth has corrupted much of the American popular culture. Harsh truths reveal Americans as poor soldiers & not particularly brave as a people. For example, Americans readily believe we suffered & behaved gallantly in WW II, but that war brought prosperity & riches to many.

Product Details

• Paperback: 519 pages
• Publisher: Diane Pub Co (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0788184792
• ISBN-13: 978-0788184796
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,753,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An angry author, August 30, 2001

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John Carlino (Delaware County, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: War, Money & American Memory: Myths of Virtue, Valor & Patriotism (Paperback)

This well-researched book is a topical view of the United States and the world during the last 150 years. The book is tough to summarize.
Earley is an angry author. Economic elites, the media, and minorities are among his many targets.
He is especially scornful of the flag-waving, right-wing politicians who avoided the Vietnam War.
He argues that the USA did not earn its current hegemony; it was lucky to inherit the world role of the British Empire. He accuses Americans of being clueless. Compared to the Soviet Union and Great Britain, Americans suffered comparatively little in World War II. Yet, Americans believe they are great warriors.
He asks whether a strong China of the future will forget that the United States of the 1930s sold raw materials to Japan at the very same time when the Japanese were slaughtering millions of Chinese civilians.
Earley contrasts the Jewish and Japanese memories of World War II. Jews want no one to forget; the Japanese prefer that everything be forgotten.
These are among the many topics Earley covers. His book will offend the squeamish, the politically correct, and the politically incorrect.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Author Who Loves The White Lower Classes, March 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: War, Money & American Memory: Myths of Virtue, Valor & Patriotism (Paperback)

The one group of people forgotten by every other.

Richard Earley confronts the greatest taboos in American culture by challenging icons and the trend-setting "elite'" self-perception of nobility and bravery.

He demonstrates how Blacks have not been held publicly accountable for the fictions used to comfort their consciences and justify their crimes. These fictions have been fomented and supported by a dishonest academia and Jewish-dominated media class, while the white lower and lower-middle classes have borne the brunt of Black crime. Earley says this does not concern wealthy white gentiles who believe that their money will protect them, yet lower-class whites are forced to live and die like the flies of summer.

Earley documents the evasion of American wars by two groups responsible for determining the content of modern American culture: Upper class WASPs who have cowered in the campuses of Harvard and Yale, and most pertinently Jews. This has elicited the uproar of many who consider the revelation of nasty truths to be worse than the death of American soldiers.

Using Jewish or American government data, Earley has established the evasion of war by American Jews. White gentiles died at 6 or 7 times the rate of Jews in both the Civil War and Vietnam. In World War II they died at a rate more than 50% greater than Jews. The same pattern is found in World War I Germany. Yet the Jews of Germany died for the Kaiser at almost 10 times the rate their American kin died fighting the Germany of Adolf Hitler. Earley asks if American Jews fled from fighting Hitler, would they ever fight like their countrymen? The answer is no. He says that this has not stopped Jews from being fierce advocates of American intervention when Jewish or Israeli interests are at stake.

Earley contends Americans have forgotten how we supplied the Japanese war machine prior to Pearl Harbor, but that Mao did not forget and neither have the Chinese leaders of today. China claimed 35 million dead to Japanese barbarity, but a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter revised that number to 10 million dead. Not one letter was published about the disappearance of 25 million Chinese dead - more than 4 times the number of dead claimed by Jews during the holocaust. Earley claims the post-war world has witnessed Japan wanting its depravities forgotten and Jews wanting to be remembered as the war's only victims.

A greedy plutocracy has pushed globalization and moved wealth-producing industries off shore, most notably to China. The balance of world power is shifting once again to the Orient and a renascent China will remember past assaults and insults. As an expanding world power, China will inevitably have its policies collide with the United States, the declining power. Even in their most decrepit state China never accepted the American claim to the mandate of heaven. Earley claims the lack of concern shown by the Chinese for Israel deeply worries American Jews, who are positioning China as a potential adversary.

As the Chinese say: Interesting times lie ahead.

Buy this book.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars TRUTH: That's all you know on earth and all you need to know, July 8, 2002

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M. A. Treu (Bordentown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: War, Money & American Memory: Myths of Virtue, Valor & Patriotism (Paperback)

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Richard Earley, a retired military officer, is a keen observer, an astute researcher, a purposeful, sometimes stinging writer, and an able historiographer; he is also a philosopher. Earley's conclusions, based on prodigious research, are frank assessments of America, its peoples and its past, with clearly posted advisories for future heavy weather. Earley, provides 38 pages of notes supporting his positions and documenting historical references, all from good, solid sources, which he has skillfully assembled, organized and analyzed.

The author pokes holes in gasbags, kicks some butt, and deflowers some heretofore virgin territory, as he tugs, drags, and then pushes the reader--perhaps kicking and screaming--into the revealing glare of truth. He probes such subjects as: Jews, their war records through history, and their penchant for censorship and control; Blacks, their crimes against Whitey, and upper-class WASPs, who cowered in Harvard and Yale during America's battles. The media, SAT scores, entertainment, religion, Ivy League schools, and Academe in general, are all bathed in Richard Earley's cleansing truth.

What a delight it is to follow the author, as he plows into one after another of the wealthy, the famous or infamous, and the foolish in America's past, and in its present.

The book is organized into 19 chapters beginning with "Pearl Harbor and Before," running through "The War in Vietnam," and concluding with "Religion and Morality in American Life." These chapters are further divided up under various rubrics such as:
· Harvard at War
· Yale at War
· Aid to Israel
· Sense of Being Jewish
· Draft Evaders and Other Tough Guys
· Booker T. Washington
· Blacks and Crime
There is very little praise, pussyfooting, or reason to celebrate anywhere in this book, but Earley's research and documentation sustain his conclusions, and the truth of his message is almost palpable.

Richard Earley is an iconoclast of sorts, and he did not set out to write a paean to folk heroes -- except that the men who fought and died in the Vietnam War hold a special place in his heart. This becomes clear upon reading the dedication of the book:
Dedicated to the American dead of the Vietnam War.
Their country and countrymen were unworthy of them.

In Earley's view, the Jews are the most egregious transgressors, and he points out many reasons why other Americans have reason to question Jewish motives and behavior. Simply being Jewish in America has served to deflect criticism, for no matter how damning the evidence against a Jew, it is ignored by American's cultural elite. In addition, being a Jew in America has allowed many to ignore, even flout, standards of conduct, which others are obliged to meet.

Earley points out that after the death of leftist journalist I. F. Stone, it was revealed that Stone was an agent of the Soviet KGB. In spite of the damning evidence, America's media and cultural arbiters ridiculed and vilified the man who brought this startling news to the attention of the general public: the very people who may have been harmed by the traitor. The elite preferred to ignore the traitorous behavior of I. F. Stone.

Despite being found guilty by an American court, the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has long been denied by their adherents. Their children can always rely on having letters published [in the "New York Times", and elsewhere] denying the truth of their parents having been Soviet spies. Thus, Earley shows how legitimate, well-earned criticism of Jews is "deflected" by their media sycophants.

One example of a different "standard of conduct" for Jews involves a leading opinion maker, Richard Cohen, of the Washington Post. Cohen admitted that he does not support the principle of "proportional military response" where Israel is concerned, because Israel as a small country can not afford a war of attrition....However, the United States, Cohen thinks, is a populous and large country, which should adjust its military response, so that factors other than deterrence are considered. Apparently, on Richard Cohen's scales, the lives of Americans do not carry the same weight as the lives of his fellow Jews.

The author believes that, historically, Jewish citizens and residents of America, have not only failed to serve America, but they seem bent on its destruction, for the benefit of Israel.

Richard Earley's efforts in creating this book certainly establish him as a scholar. He frequently quotes, or discusses, such luminaries as: T. S. Eliot, Edgar Lee Masters, Rudyard Kipling, H. L. Mencken, Pat Buchanan, Ezra Pound, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, and others.

Mr. Earley, himself, is not to be taken lightly when it comes to insightful, quotable observations and comments. Consider these remarks:
§ Academia in America has long been notorious for its self-righteous declarations of concern and probity, while it has long been short on courage.
§ The WASP hierarchy escaped the travails of the Civil War. They cowered in the campuses of Harvard and Yale.
§ The drift from Euro-centric America to multiculturalism will not bring peace or happiness to the dominant Caucasians. They will react in increasingly violent ways.
§ Mr. [William] Buckley has never understood the difference between an aristocracy that honors its obligations, most especially when its country is at war, and a plutocracy that feels money entitles its citizens to buy themselves out of danger and duty.
§ "Rolling Stone" magazine is written for virtual illiterates, and it is published by a Jewish draft evader, who left his wife and kids to move in with a man.

"War, Money and American Memory" is a remarkable work! You will be impressed with its content; and, you will be impressed with the author's diligence. It is a beacon of truth in a sea of misdirection and deceit. The nation would be well served, if this book were used as a text in every venue where American history is taught.