On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:21 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Any comments about this book? >> >> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-zap-mosquitoes/
The correct web link for the paragraphs you cited is this - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/books/22book.html I have not read this new book by Cumings, but I have read another book by Cumings, "Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History", and thought it was good. > Have not read this. But a classic on the subject is I.F. Stones "The > hidden history of the Korean War", which like most hidden histories > was based completely on public documents. A point for what Carrol has > said in the past about "open secrets". Be curious to compare the two > books. No doubt Cumings has access to documents I.F. Stone didn't. A very good book. One point Stone's book goes into some detail about is, who started the Korean war, the North or the South? Fighting broke out in late June 1950, and by August 1950 the US had been pushed back to a perimeter around Pusan - and thus the strength of the North feeds into the modern history, that it is was an invasion, being a plot of a surprise attack by the North which was successful. But was this what really happened? Stone goes into detail about what was happening in the days before the attack and asks questions seeing if this was the full story. The hegemonic version of what was going on is not completely logical. -- LM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
