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In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived to encompass not only governments but also nongovernmental groups and organizations that influence the interactions of peoples across the Pacific. Taken together, the essays provide a rich, multifaceted analysis of how the dynamic interplay between past and present is manifest in policymaking, popular culture, public commemorations, and other arenas.

The contributors interpret mass media sources, museum displays, monuments, film, and literature, as well as the archival sources traditionally used by historians. They explore how American ideas about Japanese history shaped U.S. occupation policy following Japan's surrender in 1945, and how memories of the Asia-Pacific War influenced Washington and Tokyo policy makers' reactions to the postwar rise of Soviet power. They investigate topics from the resurgence of Pearl Harbor images in the U.S. media in the decade before September 11, 2001 to the role of Chinese war museums both within China and in Chinese-Japanese relations, and from the controversy over the Smithsonian Institute's display of the Enola Gay to Japanese tourists' reactions to the U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor. One contributor traces how a narrative commemorating African Americans' military service during World War II eclipsed the history of their significant early-twentieth-century appreciation of Japan as an ally in the fight against white supremacy. Another looks at the growing recognition and acknowledgment in both the United States and Japan of the Chinese dimension of World War II. By focusing on how memories of the Asia-Pacific War have been contested, imposed, resisted, distorted, and revised, The Unpredictability of the Past demonstrates the crucial role that interpretations of the past play in the present.

Contributors. Marc Gallicchio, Waldo Heinrichs, Haruo Iguchi, Xiaohua Ma, Frank Ninkovich, Emily S. Rosenberg, Takuya Sasaki, Yujin Yaguchi, Daqing Yang.
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NEW RELEASE NOVEL FLORIDA DIRTY BY NICK GALLICCHIO This novel is a fascinating love story that takes place in Florida Its the ineffable love affairs of Tony Gallina, a guy from New Jersey. Its filled with romance, ecstasy and spine tingly sexuality. The passionate love scenes are warm, descriptive and gratifying. Tony's association with a nefarious cocaine dealer nearly cost him his life. Cocaine is the drug that alters the minds of strong people leading them into the pit of inhibitions, perversions and despair. Tony carefully rubs shoulders with the Florida mob and he learns their uncontrollable greed, and their craving for wealth and power. He is aware of the illicit boiler rooms selling worthless gems by telephone, robbing and cheating the public out of tens of thousands of dollars. This novel leads up to the longest federal trial in America's history. Florida Dirty, doesn't be muse the reader nor is it inept. Its easy reading with candor and incisiveness. This novel isn't all fiction! The authors informative knowledge regarding history and the Roman civilization is factual!.
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In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights.

Black internationalism emphasized the role of race or color in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations "of color," such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism.

In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena..
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Every now and then, a blockbuster novel comes along - Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels, Mario Puzo's The Godfather, and Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguys come to mind. Now we have Men Without Redemption by Nick Gallicchio

Gallicchio's new novel is indeed explosive; not just another ordinary novel about gangsters, corruption and mob hits, but directly drawn from the streets of reality. It revolves around a mob cadre with an ingenious plan to overthrow the president of an International Union of Working People. The story reveals and masterfully interweaves the main aspects inherent in both organized crime and the American labor movement. Gallicchio hurls readers into a world they have never known before by punctuating the pages with unexpected plots enshrouded in mystery, bathed in blood and suffused with pathos. Myriad planned murders are rife with intrigue, riveting in their description and deftly carried out with such subtlety and cunning readers will find themselves (almost) sympathetic to those who execute them.

Sizzling love scenes are bound to curl the hair on the back of one's neck as the author, in a sublime and entrancing way, imparts to the sultry scenes the true meaning of sexual romance and genuine love. Men Without Redemption contains all the ingredients needed in a page-turning novel - gritted teeth, sarcasm, blind loyalty, vengeance, familial love, hate and utter connivance, altruism and the epic sins of fathers bequeathed to sons..
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