At the basis of the Hiterlism mystique is the notion of race. ... If ... we overlook the terminology that Hitler inherits from Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain—and that has become so repugnant to Americans because it has been made to appear primarily anti-Semitic—we shall find a different picture from what we had been led to expect by reading excerpts from the more lurid German anthropologists. Reduced to plain terms, Hitler's racism is a perfectly simple though far-reaching idea. It is the myth of we the best, which we find, more or less fully developed, in all vigorous cultures.
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Philip Johnson was a 20th-century American architect. Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. Read more on Wikipedia →