[cr #576] I think the reviews all came from the dust jacket or the online reviews - verbatim.
[cr #184] "No mere review can do justice to this new book; suffice to say that it as a stunning work of scholarship and erudition that vindicates Lincoln against both his contemporary adversaries and those who in our own time would diminish him and the principles of the American Founding he sought to perpetuate." - The Washington Times
[nc note] LINK "No mere review can do justice to this remarkable new book; suffice to say that it is a stunning work of scholarship and erudition that vindicates Lincoln against both his contemporary adversaries and those who in our own time would diminish him and the principles of the American Founding that he sought to perpetuate." -- Prof. Thomas Mackubin Owens, in The Washington Times
Deleting the name of the author, Thomas Mackubin Owens, hiding the fact that the review issued from the Claremont Institute, is not appropriate documentation, in content and context.
Precisely. Capitan removed the name of the reviewer and expanded his words to suggest that they came from the newspaper in which they appeared. The Washington Times is a well regarded conservative newspaper that would give substantial credibility to a book that it recommended as a whole as if it were the conservative book of the summer or something. Mackubin Owens, on the other hand, is a Claremonster partisan with substantially less credibility and a conflicted interest in Jaffa.