29-07-2012, 02:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-07-2012, 04:30 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
Thanks Phil.
I was really kind of shocked at how bad this book was.
The guy spent ten years writing it, and somehow he didn't get to NARA II? With 2 million pages of declassified documents there. He didn't even read the Taylor Report with RFK going after Dulles like a bouncer? He didn't even read FRUS, which shows MONGOOSE was terminated after the Missile Crisis? ANd he calls NSAM 263 "tentative" when it was in the works for almost two years?
And he couldn't tell his readers about LBJ's role, at the very least, in the cover up? Which is undeniable today by any objective person.
What a piece of crap. THere is no reason to lie this far down the line. One of these days this country is going to have to face the facts. You cannot with a worthless sell out as a popular historian.
I was really kind of shocked at how bad this book was.
The guy spent ten years writing it, and somehow he didn't get to NARA II? With 2 million pages of declassified documents there. He didn't even read the Taylor Report with RFK going after Dulles like a bouncer? He didn't even read FRUS, which shows MONGOOSE was terminated after the Missile Crisis? ANd he calls NSAM 263 "tentative" when it was in the works for almost two years?
And he couldn't tell his readers about LBJ's role, at the very least, in the cover up? Which is undeniable today by any objective person.
What a piece of crap. THere is no reason to lie this far down the line. One of these days this country is going to have to face the facts. You cannot with a worthless sell out as a popular historian.