Journalistic compilations are a crucial part of America's literary, intellectual and political heritage. They enjoyed a golden age in '60s and '70s trade publishing: Gazing over the library of books I am using to write my own history of the years 1965 to 1972, I [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Blumenthal is good on Bush, bad on Clinton. His biography of the
Clinton was straight out hagiograhy. So while I generally like him,
he’s very partisan.
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