[Future Snake Eater]

I think he misses the real significance of the 1950s; and, of course, stops sooner than we do.

Do you find it difficult to detach yourself from such current history as the War on Terror for analytical purposes?

[LS]

Not really. I am of the view that while no historian can escape biases, one should neither pretend they do not exist (the "empiricists") or seek to counterbalance them with antithetical concepts (the New Left).

If you look at my previous book, "The Entrepreneurial Adventure," published in 2000, I went through 1996 or 1997 and (so far) my assessment of what was happening at the time I wrote it does not appear to be too far off.