02-05-2019, 03:15 AM
Mr. DiEugenio is rendering monumental service in interpreting and re-interpreting the JFK foreign policy.
JFK set the high bar for what foreign policy should be IMO, and thanks to historians like Mr. DiEugenio, the younger generation is being told the details and therefore what good presidential foreign policy looks like.
In my opinion, there are self-styled historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin or Larry Sabado who are on TV as experts, but have not IMO come up with very much that is new or unique. They seem to be place-holders and not much more.
I have not read much from the media-favorite historians, but that is because I am intensively reading what I consider to be more innovative and enlightening works. Since I have heard most of the opinions of these establishment historians, I wouldn't priortize their work for my personal reading list.
Larry Sabado, of course, is a lone gunman theorist. Pathetic IMHO.
James Lateer
JFK set the high bar for what foreign policy should be IMO, and thanks to historians like Mr. DiEugenio, the younger generation is being told the details and therefore what good presidential foreign policy looks like.
In my opinion, there are self-styled historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin or Larry Sabado who are on TV as experts, but have not IMO come up with very much that is new or unique. They seem to be place-holders and not much more.
I have not read much from the media-favorite historians, but that is because I am intensively reading what I consider to be more innovative and enlightening works. Since I have heard most of the opinions of these establishment historians, I wouldn't priortize their work for my personal reading list.
Larry Sabado, of course, is a lone gunman theorist. Pathetic IMHO.
James Lateer