{"id":1730,"date":"2015-04-08T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-05-31T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:07:51","slug":"supreme-commander-macarthurs-triumph-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Commander: MacArthur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Triumph in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Seymour Morris, Jr., 2014, Harper<\/p>\n<p>This book was somewhat of a disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 I was very interested in how a successful occupation of another company was managed, particularly after the disaster that occurred in Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0 The book seemed to start out pretty well as it depicted MacArthur&#8217;s arrival in Japan and some of his first acts and policies.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the book bogged down when it abandoned a chronological timeline and addressed various occurrences by topic.\u00c2\u00a0 This made it somewhat hard to follow.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, it appears that the book had been heavily edited and most of the cuts were probably in the last half of the book where topics were treated\u00c2\u00a0almost in summary form.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the book would have been very tedious without those cuts, but it seemed that a lot of information was left out of the final product.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that there are much better volumes available regarding this important period\u00c2\u00a0following WWII.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Seymour Morris, Jr., 2014, Harper This book was somewhat of a disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 I was very interested in how a successful occupation of another company was managed, particularly after the disaster that occurred in Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0 The book seemed to start <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1730\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16,21],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}