Alice Duer Miller

The Beauty and the Bolshevist (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: 'Ben Moreton was not a Bolshevist; indeed, he had written several editorials to show that, in his opinion, their doctrines were not sound, but of course the people who denounced him never thought of reading his paper. He was a socialist, a believer in government ownership, and, however equably he attempted to examine any dispute between capital and labor, he always found for labor. He was much denounced by ultraconservatives, and perhaps their instinct was sound, for he was educated, determined, and possessed of a personality that attached people warmly, so that he was more dangerous than those whose doctrines were more militant. He was not wholly trusted by the extreme radicals. His views were not consistently agreeable to either group. For instance, he believed that the conscientious objectors were really conscientious, a creed for which many people thought he ought to be deported. On the other hand, he doubted that Wall Street had started the war for its own purposes, a skepticism which made some of his friends think him just fit for a bomb.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985319244
• Artikelnr.: 63586001

Autorenporträt

Alice Duer Miller was an American author who lived from July 28, 1874, to August 22, 1942. Her poems had a big impact on how people felt about politics. During the American suffrage movement, her feminist verses changed people's political views. Similarly, her verse book The White Cliffs changed people's political views when the U.S. joined World War II. She also wrote books and movie scripts. Alice Duer Miller was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. She came from a rich and well-known family. She lived in Weehawken, NJ, with her parents and two sisters as a child. Lizzie Wilson Meads and James Gore King Duer had a daughter named her. The family lost a lot of money when Baring Bank went out of business. Olivia Wilson Meads was her mother. Her father was Orlando Meads from Albany, New York. William Alexander Duer was her great-grandfather and the head of Columbia College. William Duer was her great-great-grandfather. He was an American lawyer, businessman, and con artist from New York City. He had been in both the Continental Congress and the meeting that made the New York Constitution. It was in 1778 that he signed the Articles of Confederation for the United States.