A Short Biography of John Ruskin John Ruskin was born on 8th February 1819 in south London to John James Ruskin and Margaret Ruskin. His father was a wine merchant, and his mother was a daughter of a pub proprietor. Ruskin spent his early childhood in the Scottish countryside. At the age...
There, he finds a resounding demonstration of the power of production and logistics that underlay the American effort in World War Two (and went on to constitute of core of what Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex”, which is still on display at places like Camp Bondsteel in K...