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And a big thanks to Free Republic for keeping the thread intact after fourteen years!

I mention this because I went looking for posts concerning Ra^thergate recently, and was shocked at the multitude of dead links. So again, thanks Free Republic for doing it properly!

And thanks to Buckhead, for seeing what was in front of him.

        Well, well.  A Google alert told me my name was mentioned here, and I came across a most interesting thread.  Thank you, all who liked my review of Fehrenbach's classic history.

        Concerning MacArthur: the poster who mentioned that MacArthur was a Victorian had an important point, I think. MacArthur's WWI troops loved him, while his WWII troops hated him. Yet as far as I can tell, he was the same man, behaving the same way, in both wars. The world changed, he didn't.

        BTW, in addition to Manchester's biography, I'd recommend Geoffrey Perret's Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas Macarthur.  Perret is very good about distinguishing fact from fiction, and most accounts of MacArthur's life contain lots of fiction.

        On Halberstam: I picked up his book on the 1950s, and read the first few pages.  In it, he expressed doubt that Alger Hiss was a spy. Given the evidence produced at the trial, the liberal writer Herbert L. Packer noted that Hiss's guilt had been proved as thoroughly as anything can be proved in a legal proceeding. The liberal Allen Weinstein, who initially had convinced himself that Hiss was innocent, changed his mind when writing Perjury, his book on the case.  No rational explanation has ever been offered for the handwritten and typed documents Chambers produced to show Hiss guilty, except that he was spy. For someone to blandly express doubt in a history published in 1994, without giving any reason for the doubt, tells me that the man is dishonest.

        Meanwhile, I'll have to look up some of the books recommended in this thread.

      I'm not THAT Stephen St. Onge.  I don't do interior decorating. http://www.fatsteve.blogspot.com/