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J. DOUGLAS
JOHNSON
The
Fourth Crusade:
A
Study in
Unfunded
Liabilities
Like
the Crusades that
preceded it, the
objective of the
Fourth Crusade
(1202-1204) was to
make Jerusalem safe
for Christian
pilgrims who were
being robbed and
killed by Muslim
raiders. But the
Fourth
Crusade never made
it to Jerusalem.
Instead the story
ends in a way none
of the participants
could have possibly
imagined---the
slaughter of
Christians in
Constantinople at
the hands of the
western
Crusaders. And
no one---not the
Pope, and certainly
not the Crusaders
themselves, would
have ever joined if
they had seen it
coming. This
is the story of how
it happened (in
twenty minutes).
The
Lounge at Iwan
Ries
Tuesday, January
19, 2016
5:30-8:30pm
 J.
Douglas
Johnson graduated
from Middlebury
College in 1988
with a degree in
English
literature and
economics. He
designed Oracle
database system
software in the
financial and
defense
industries, and
served as a
research
associate at the
Economic Policy
Institute before
joining Surface
Preparation
Technologies,
Inc. (SPT), an
international
highway
construction
company, in
1992, where he
worked for 20
years as SPT's
Director of
Marketing. He
is currently
President of
Brideshead Inc.,
an information
management
company.
Doug's
polemics have
appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, the
Asian Wall
Street Journal,
the Japan
Times, the
Far Eastern
Economic Review,
the Journal
of Commerce, the
Chicago
Sun-Times, and
the Chicago
Tribune.
J. Douglas
Johnson graduated
from Middlebury
College in 1988
with a degree in
English literature
and
economics. He
designed Oracle
database system
software in the
financial and
defense
industries, and
served as a
research associate
at the Economic
Policy Institute
before joining
Surface
Preparation
Technologies, Inc.
(SPT), an
international
highway
construction
company, in 1992,
where he worked
for 20 years as
SPT's Director of
Marketing.
Mr. Johnson is
currently
President of
Brideshead Inc.,
an information
management
company.
Mr. Johnson's
polemics have
appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, the
Asian
Wall Street
Journal, the
Japan
Times, the
Far
Eastern Economic
Review, the
Journal
of Commerce, the
Chicago
Sun-Times, and
the Chicago
Tribune.
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