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Review of   Owen Wister   A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge (1920. Macmillan; USA publication.) American Propaganda after the 'Great War' — Review by 'Rerevisionist'     11 Jan 2016 My hardback copy was bought years ago; before Amazon, and before Internet. My notes say 1920. When I bought it, I hadn't pieced together the story of Britain, Jews, the Bank of England, and the US Revolution. Followed by the Britain-US War starting 1812. The period was complicated, of course, and dominated, at least apparently, by Napoleon. Some American views: Here's 'Torgo1969' in YouTube comments, 10 Dec 2015: Never forget that England is the USA's oldest enemy that tried to strangle the USA in the crib. And stabbed Poland in the back by encouraging them to fight Germany in 1939 and then turning them over to Stalin at the end of the slaughter. And declared war on Germany (but not the Soviet Union) in 1939 before Germany declared war on them. And on and on and on... 'Black People are Boring', agrees: ... Britain really screwed up the world through their rothschild scum, their helping turkey in the crimea against russia, messing with spain, poland, germany, their messing with the boers, their meddling in america, etc etc. DeadlyRhythm84: Ever since the Jews reconquered England (Oliver Cromwell let the Jews back in.) The world has been completely dominated by Jewish tyranny disguised as British Imperialism. Rerevisionist: Well worded. Most British people (including me until some years ago) had no idea of this. DeadlyRhythm84: Sadly, Most British people see Cromwell as the 'Father of British Democracy'. In reality he is the biggest traitor England has ever known, even worse than these puppet PM's. [such as Churchill] This struck me as not very well written, in an old-newspaper style with rather silly chapter titles. It's an attempt to persuade Americans that Britain, or England, has in fact not treated them too badly on the whole: plenty of Brits opposed the Revolutionary War; & the tax wasn't that bad in any case, so they shouldn't be pro-German. I don't think there was an edition before 1920, so it seems a bit late. It is apparently quite intelligently revisionist, e.g. acknowledging that slavery wasn't the only issue in the Civil War, and conceding that there were wars against Indians. The contentious point with the new USA, of control of their money, I think is unmentioned. (The book is online; fairly easy to check). Chapters 9 to 13 (IX to XIII) have some historical details: IX: Wister on Historians. There were of course many German-descent people in the USA, with anti-English attitudes, in addition to people with a 'grudge' (the expression 'ancient grudge' is from Romeo and Juliet). The following chapters look at 1783 Treaty of Paris, 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1823 Monroe Doctrine (which Wister says in effect was made at the prompting of England). Then 1812, including Napoleon, and also Florida, Texas, Oregon, and other territorial fights or threats. Then 1860 onwards: the American Civil War, and UK neutrality during that war. And 1872 Geneva arbitration over the ship Alabama. Discussion of American neutrality. Wister also looks at the 1898 War with Spain, maybe the first false-flag and invasion of modern times. Britain's control of coal for the Spanish fleet played a part. Wister may be a Jewish name; no surprise about propaganda suppression of Jewish money influences. Or their activities—nothing much on the slave trade, or the nitty gritty of war deaths, for example. I was interested to see that Wister (I'd never heard of him) wrote quite a lot of books; probably many Americans knew The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains - 'one of the first mass-market bestsellers'. As a survey of England and the USA, wars, and propaganda, just after the 'Great War', revisionist-minded people might like to examine this book and try to work out what may have happened. Bertrand Russell's 'Can Americans and Britons be Friends?' looks at just one aspect of the same—very important—epoch.