There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/
Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan
Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Nobusuke Kishi.
FOOTNOTES:
- Machiavelli’s Children Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels
- Chinese Comfort Women Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves by Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei
- Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro
- Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories By Paul H. Kratoska
- The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 Their Lives and Times Edited by Akio Watanabe
- Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque:The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 By Mark Driscoll
- Zengakuren: Japan's Revolutionary Student by Stuart J. Dowsey
- Planning for Empire Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis Mimura
- Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara
- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F10%2F09%2Fworld%2Fcia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html
- https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268783/the-imperial-ghost-in-the-neoliberal-machine-figuring-the-cia/
- https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/inside-story-of-us-black-ops-in-post-war-japan/
- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fessay%2F2015%2F08%2F15%2Fthe-unquiet-past
- https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/assassination-attempt-nobusuke-kishi/
- https://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf
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