Best Selling Books by Daniel Harrington

The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945, and within a few years, the Soviets and their Western partners were jockeying for control of their former foe. Attempting to thwart the Allied powers' plans to create a unified West German government, the Soviets blocked rail and road access to the western sectors of Berlin in June 1948. With no other means of delivering food and supplies to the German people under their protection, the Allies organized the Berlin airlift. In Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Cold War, Daniel F. Harrington examines the "Berlin question" from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany through the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Harrington draws on previously untapped archival sources to challenge standard accounts of the postwar division of Germany, the origins of the blockade, the original purpose of the airlift, and the leadership of President Harry S. Truman. While thoroughly examining four-power diplomacy, Harrington demonstrates how the ingenuity and hard work of the people at the bottom—pilots, mechanics, and Berliners—were more vital to the airlift's success than decisions from the top. Harrington also explores the effects of the crisis on the 1948 presidential election and on debates about the custody and use of atomic weapons. Berlin on the Brink is a fresh, comprehensive analysis that reshapes our understanding of a critical event of cold war history.

Author Joseph D. Harrington has written an informative and insightful history of the Nisei (Second-generation Japanese Americans), working for the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific during World War II. This is no whitewashed narrative, as it exposes U.S. internment camps, prejudices, and the frustrations of patriotic Japanese-Americans who wanted to fight for their country, but were initially rebuffed. As the book relates, not all Nisei were in favor of fighting, and even those that did encountered another kind of prejudice at first, from Hawaiian-born Nisei who more than occasionally felt that continental Japanese-Americans just didn't measure up, linguistically-speaking. Like other children of immigrants, the Nisei were, to a large extent, caught between Japanese tradition and U.S. culture. The concept of honor, an essential element in Japanese-American family life, ended up serving U.S. military interests well. The author has done an outstanding job of uncovering names and telling little-known stories. Especially fascinating are the ones that describe the analytical acumen of Nisei translators.

日本人は訴訟嫌い?日本の裁判官は消極的?日本の司法は政治的?アメリカ人の東大教授が誤解だらけの日本人論を脱神話化。

From the prologue-Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday that two young people found each other and embarked together on life's journey. How is it that time slips by until one day we wake up with life behind us? Try as I might, all the little moments fade into the mists of memory. If I stand with the things I know best, the fog lifts; it lifts and for a brief instant the light of a thousand memories brightens all around me. They take no order and spare no feeling. I can never tell when the sight of a familiar room, the feel of a piece of furniture or the scent from the kitchen will send memories wildly crashing through the barriers of my day-to-day existence. Like puppies with muddy paws, these memories don't think or care what they do. They don't know that the constant reminders of love and loss, happiness and pain, success and failure should have a time and place to be remembered. They should not have free run of the heart.There are many ways men run, hide, or try to trick memory back into the Pandora's box from which it springs. Some take refuge in wine or in past glory while others chase the fashions of the moment. None of these work. Once the wine bottle empties, the glories vanish and the fashions shift, the memories return all the more powerful as if the effort to escape them only made them stronger. For me, the way through memories is not to escape. I would rather feel the pain of memories and of times past than the blank now of a man with no recollection. Walking through these old familiar rooms, the times of love return with all their warmth and all their finality. HappinessIf I could give but one gift to the world, Forget me, forget her, forget usForget the long wonderful times we spent in the shadow of our special rock.Give the world a taste of the happiness two souls shared in a small forgotten place, Let people look upon each other the way we did.

This highly illustrated timeline, with over 300 photographs, moves readers through the history of Hawaiian Islands, telling a story point by point until a fuller picture emerges. In this volume are collected the dates and names of the men and women who have affected these Islands, some for the better, some for worse. Here is Kamehameha I, unifier of the Islands, alongside Captain Cook, whose voyages to the Islands precipitated years of contact with the West and the near eradication of Hawaiian culture. Here are a multitude of people and events that have shaped and made these Islands into what they have become. This timeline is not a picture of Hawaiian history in its totality; that would require a work of numerous volumes. It does, however, provide the reader with a starting point for further investigation and he or she is encouraged to read the entries gathered in the succeeding pages and seek out further volumes of history to gain a fuller understanding of the events written of here. In this way the book becomes a collection of points guiding the reader onward to new and different horizon.

Collection includes a report card of Harrington's class grades, signed by Karl Maeser and James Talmage.

"Young readers will have a blast figuring out this and many more riddles about all the interesting animals that live in Hawaiʻi"--Page 4 of cover.

Harrington recalled buildings and places in San Francisco, especially in its southeast corner of Bay View and Visitacion Valley. He told of life in San Francisco, the Native Sons of the Golden West, and the value of the association and listed many of the families in the area..