Introductory Discussion by Ron Unz Preface Acknowledgments Introduction SECTION I • WHAT EVERY PALEOANTHROPOLOGIST SHOULD KNOW Chapter 1 • A Story of the Origin of Humans Chapter 2 • Early Humans Chapter 3 • DNA Chapter 4 • Evolution Chapter 5 • Selectors Chapter 6 • Neoteny Chapter 7 • Genetic Distance Chapter 8 •... Read More

The most truly disadvantaged are those who are hated for their virtues not their vices, who insist on playing the game of life with opponents who have long ago abandoned the rules, who stubbornly go on believing that a set of highly sophisticated institutions developed by and for a particular people at a particular point... Read More

To His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM C. BULLITT Ambassador of the United States of America. My Dear Bill: More than thirty years have elapsed since you read to me in Paris your letter of resignation from the American Peace Delegation, and since then everything that has happened has justified your protest against a Treaty which was a... Read More

The author of this hard-hitting book came from an old English naval family. He served in the Royal Navy for over thirty years, participating in most of the decisive actions of World War I and subsequently helping to direct the Royal Navy Staff College. Captain Grenfell's books on naval strategy — Sea Power (1941), The... Read More

Many authors of books on the current world scene have been White House confidants, commanders of armies, and others whose authority is indicated by their official or military titles. Such authors need no introduction to the public. A Prospective reader is entitled, however, to know something of the background and experience of an unknown or... Read More

This book was made possible by a research grant from the FOUNDATION FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WASHINGTON, D.C. Copyright 1949 HENRY REGNERY COMPANY Chicago, Illinois Manufactured in the United States of America To My Dear Friends John and Joan Crane Whose Help and Encouragement Have Been Invaluable In the Writing of This Book FOLLOWING WORLD WAR... Read More

This book is dedicated to those people in all lands who are ruled primarily by reason, rather than emotion; who think consistently in terms of principle, rather than prejudice; who try to see events now the way they will be viewed a generation hence by sober historians; who try to identify the present distortion in... Read More

IN MEMORY OF HENRY TENNANT KILLED IN FRANCE 1917 THIS book, which is based upon a larger work now laid aside, was written before the war. I wrote it as an historian’s attempt to retell the story of those events — forgotten in the press and clamour of contemporary news — which after 1918 set... Read More

The preface is usually that part of a book which can most safely be omitted. It usually represents that efflorescent manifestation of egotism which an author, after working hard, cannot spare either himself or his readers. More often than not the readers spare themselves. When, however, the writer is a daily perpetrator of High Treason,... Read More

TO PROFESSOR FREDERICK STARR FRIEND OF MEN AND LOVER OF MEXICO THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED The immediate basis of this book is eleven weeks spent in Mexico. "Eleven weeks!" I hear them exclaim. "Why we've been here eleven years and we've never thought of writing a book about Mexico ! Such presumption!" Softly, softly, dear... Read More

ON THE 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York City for Liverpool, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest. Now I have found that about... Read More