Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.
There was a great deal of anti-American feeling in the world at the time he wrote this and for the next 4 years. But it had not been such a problem before George W. Bush assumed the Presidency, and after the Bush Administration, the anti-Americanism dissipated. Bush had to cope with the 9-11 attack and was not able to do so and maintain pro American feelings throughout the world. Towards the end of his second term, he was very unpopular even among members of his own party in America.
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, Novelist, I Love You, Madame Librarian, 2004
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Taft, the incumbent President, was in a 3 way race against Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. He came in third.
After a memo was circulated about House Speaker-elect Tom Foley that implied that the congressman was a homosexual:. at the Republican National Committee, source of the offending letter
The ability of the public to change views swiftly has been observed by many earlier writers. Most of them thought the mob fickle and not worth the trouble to worry about public opinion. See {627556} for such an example. Spinoza argued the modern democratic view that it was critical. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works, with further collections being published after his death.
