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Roads Not Taken
A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples led American diplomacy into the Cold War, Bullitt became an early enthusiast of the European Union. From his early (1919) proposal of disassembling the former Russian Empire into dozens of independent states, to his much later (1944) advice to land the American troops in the Balkans rather than in Normandy, Bullitt developed a dissenting vision of the major events of his era. A connoisseur of American politics, Russian history, Viennese psychoanalysis, and French wine, Bullitt was also the author of two novels and a number of plays. A friend of Sigmund Freud, Bullitt coauthored with him a sensational biography of President Wilson. A friend of Bullitt, Mikhail Bulgakov depicted him as the devil figure inThe Master and Margarita. Taking seriously Bullitt's projects and foresights, this book portrays him as an original thinker and elucidates his role as a political actor. His roads were not taken, but the world would have been different if Bullitt's warnings had been heeded. His experience suggests powerful though lost alternatives to the catastrophic history of the twentieth century.Based on Bullitt's unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era. It is human ideas and choices, Bullitt's projects and failures among them, that have brought the world to its current state.
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The Impassable Dream
This essay approaches the theme of “impasse and democracy” through the motif of the American dream, a dream, as many have noted, unfulfilled both at home and abroad. This lack of fulfilment is here read as a structural impasse within democracy, as a sign that democracy dreams, or is a dream, because it cannot come into its own. Building toward a sustained reading of a typically neglected volume in the Freudian corpus, his collaborative study (with William C. Bullitt) of Woodrow Wilson, this essay teases out the theoretical and political implications of thinking the dream that America remains, ambivalently idling, from a psychoanalytical point of view.
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No friends in the holy office: Black and Mulatta women healing communities and answering to the inquisition in seventeen century Mexico
This article examines Inquisition proceedings brought against three Black and Mulatta women for heretical practices. As far as the Inquisition was concerned, the wide-ranging healing work the women did in and for their communities was unlicensed and unsanctioned. In its view, the women were witches who mingled in occultism: sorcery, magic, curses and clairvoyance. But in the eyes of their community members their works were viewed in more complex ways. Witness testimonies shed light on the complex and precarious relationships and communities to which Black and Mulatta women belonged before they were denounced to the Inquisition. Once they were entangled in the Inquisition their intricate and multi-layered lives were disrupted. The Inquisition was a powerful repellent; people who had been clients of or perhaps even friends to these women were compelled to denounce them in their testimonies. Yet their accounts underscore the importance, need, and demand their work garnered in their communities.
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