Who is this history revisionist? Must be another liberal.
Unfortunately, nonsense like this is being taught in public schools.
Barton J. Bernstein is a 78 year old professor of history at Stanford University. He can be presumed liberal.
Herbert Hoover was no conservative, but a government interventionist whose policies turned the 1929 crash into a full-blown depression that FDR prolonged through his own interventionist policies. Hoover’s criticism of the atomic bombings was isolationist, not `conservative’.
Prof. Bernstein cites Hoover & a single 1959 article in the “rightwing journal” National Review, then breathlessly states, “These criticisms are not anomalies” as though they represent an undercurrent within the conservative movement (which really was inaugurated by William F. Buckley Jr.)
Bernstein is only trying to tar today’s conservatism using the events of seven decades ago. Guilt by association in a truly extreme stretch.
Again, he’s 78 and, not satisfied with lifetime tenure, seeks yet fame & relevance in his declining years.