[SkyPilot]

Isn't it ironic, then, that Ambrose, who probably did NOT have the face time with his subject, wrote an objective and fair treatment while Edmund Morris who DID have unprecedented access to Reagan, completely blew it by inserting fictional characters (himself) repeatedly throughout the book "Dutch

That sir is an excellent point.

See my other post about Ambrose. With your writing background, I see your vantage point and agree with what you said.

[LS]

Interesting observation, and I’ll withhold judgment on SA the man. I never met him, although one of my colleagues from NO did, and found him very ambitious and self-absorbed. On the other hand, I’ve known a LOT of historians from that generation who are/were very supportive of the WW II generation soldiers, romanticize D-Day, etc., but who otherwise were big-time libs. They never seem to connect the anti-freedom of Hitler with the corruption and decay and anti-freedom of Clinton and Obama.