[nerdgirl]

This is an old article but has a lot of good info about who this Brinkley guy is, shedding plenty of light on what his current motivations may be.

[nerdgirl]

ah sorry I meant Douglas - name typo there!

[FesterUSMC]

Who is David Brinkley?

A DUMBA*S

[IncPen]

[11th_VA]

David Brinkley on Clinton's Re-election:

""We all look forward with great pleasure to four years full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection," he said, "plus more goddam nonsense... "he has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore he's a bore, and will always be a bore . ."

[Slings and Arrows]

ORIGINAL TITLE -> Douglas Brinkley: John Kennedy Jr.'s most prolific mourner.

[Clemenza]

FYI: I ran into this guy when he was still at Hofstra. He was giving a speech on a "road trip" book he wrote. I wasn't impressed at the time.

[ApplegateRanch]

"Brinkley abhors the narrow academic history that has dominated universities. He scorns scholarly monographs and favors a democratic, populist history."

" "His name-dropping is almost pathological," says one friend. In my conversation with Brinkley, he touched on a dozen famous politicians and artists he knows."

"Brinkley has won the public but has not wowed the academy. Some of his colleagues' dismay is simply jealousy of his entrepreneurship, but some is more substantive. His books read like good journalism--and that's no insult--but they are not great history. "He has made no analytical contribution at all," says one Ivy League historian who professes to like Brinkley."

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Sounds like he still has the same difficiencies.

Five minutes "analysis" of Kerry's conflicting stories, and a look at original records other than Kerry's hand picked items & "diary" (now shown to have been 'reconstructed' much later, rather than written at the time) used in 'Tour of Duty' and he would have written "Tour of Doodie" instead.

Shameless.