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...course, acknowledging that fact would weaken Perret??s argument that Truman is the man to blame for the creeping expansion of Oval Office authority and the ruthless exertion of American force abroad...
...snake oil” might have opened Truman’s airways, but there’s no reason to think it closed his mind. Nonetheless, in Perret??s world, where fact is no object, counterargument is altogether banished...
...face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale” for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce and the armed services. Niles is just one more victim of Perret??s scattershot storytelling...
Perhaps the most uncomfortable moment in the book is Perret??s passage later on describing a debate between McGeorge Bundy—an aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson—and political scientist Hans Morgenthau—a Jew who fled Germany after Hitler came to power...
...adopt the “ex” prefix as well. He has substituted ideology for methodology and invective for insight. He habitually uses phrases like “shit in a silk stocking” to describe Cabinet members and high-level aides. Would a count of Perret??s errors this time top McPherson’s mark of 120? Maybe, but more to the point, why would anyone waste the time tabulating...