The Soldier, the Builder, and the Diplomat

Custer, the Titanic, and World War I

Steven Schlesser

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Cune Press,US
01 December 2023

British & Irish history; First World War

Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, will enjoy these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I.

The American adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have finally wound down after incurring enormous costs. One wonders if we have forgotten the lessons of history, and in particular of World War I? It is far easier to enter into armed conflict than it is to withdraw the troops and heal the wounds.

The Soldier, the Builder, and the Diplomat consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary before World War I.

However spectacular their failures, it's generally agreed that these men (or, in the case of Edward Grey, the men around him) could have avoided disaster except for arrogance - a flaw that has long characterized the imperial ambition of leaders from both countries.

One shudders to think where such a mentality will take us in a nuclear age.

Steven Schlesser's readable study is more than entertainment or scholarship, it is a plea for balance, probity, and reason in an era when a single fit of arrogance by a world leader can devastate hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and imperil the very project of civilized human existence on this planet.

It's difficult to overstate the importance of The Soldier, the Builder, and the Diplomat.

By: Steven Schlesser
Imprint: Cune Press,US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781951082260
ISBN 10: 1951082265
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven Schlesser was born in Portland in 1957 and attended public high school there. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1980 and then spent the following year as a newspaper reporter at The Valley Herald in Milton-Freewater Oregon. From 1981 until 1984 he attended Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont, earning his JD. Following a short stint as a law clerk, Schlesser joined his father to help run the family business, Schlesser Company Inc., which prefinished mouldings for the manufactured housing industry. Currently, Schlesser makes his living as a supplier for this same industry and as a broker for tiny home manufacturers. Since 1987 he has written a monthly newsletter called The Schlesser Review.