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Blumenthals First Draft of History

Princeton University Press has published a compilation of articles by Sidney Blumenthal called How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

By Rick Perlstein

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 see collections by Joan Didion, Garry Wills, Jack Newfield, Steven V. Roberts, Jonathan Schell, J. Anthony… 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.

    United States Posted by blondemike on Nov 13, 2006 at 7:41 PM
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