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...Institute of Politics speech, Murray largely avoided the subject of race, and did not answer the stinging criticism of Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould. He has claimed that The Bell Curve is not about race, but Adolf Hitler could have made that argument about Mein Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race, and the assumptions of the chapters on race are used to justify major changes in public policy, from welfare to affirmative action. The Bell Curve is a political and not a scientific work--it subjectively molds facts and relies on racism to advance...
With his violent nationalism and anti-Semitic rhetoric, Zhirinovsky seems the perfect Hitler figure for a possible takeover. Even Zhirinovsky's autobiography The Last Thrust to the South has been likened to Mein Kampf by members of the Library of Congress...
These passages come from Zhirinovsky's autobiography, The Last Thrust to the South, a book that James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf." In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan...
From the West come the Sonics; they know how to kampf...
...book, which historian James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf," recounts in minute detail the slights -- both real and imagined -- that made Zhirinovsky's Kazakhstan childhood an unrelenting horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled...