(Gregory McNamee) The book is like Gregory Mcnamee said highly readable, it is basically a history of the silver spoon that predicts Republican greed will be America's downfall. ... Phillips at times does suggest that, like the Spanish, Dutch, and British empires before it, the United States is poised on the brink of collapse, "purple-veined with years of high living, lips curled with the insolence of great wealth." ...
Roosevelt's intention was to dismantle the colonial empires of Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, and convert the war-time production of the United States into capital goods exports to the rest of the world, based on long term, low interest loans, in order to prevent the American economy from going into a recession as a result of the drop in munitions demand at the end of the war, and also to rebuild the world economy. ...
Georgia ia part of a large empire; Georgia is a member of the American Union; that Union has a Constitution which is the supremacy acknowledged by all, and which imposes limits to the legislatures of the several states, which none claim a right to pass." ...
