[af_vet_1981]

You are accused of using a biased and unreliable source, and I find the report credible. Shame, shame, shame.

Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, by Robert N. Rosen, was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in April 2006. Soon after the book’s publication, Rosen was invited to speak at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York and at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also been interviewed by various media.

Rosen, 57, is an attorney with the Rosen Law Firm, in Charleston, South Carolina, specializing in divorce law. He earned a B.A. at the University of Virginia (1969) and an M.A. in history at Harvard (1970), before graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1973. He has practiced law full time since then. Rosen has also authored several books on the history of Charleston and Southern Jewry. He is not known to have previously written about America’s response to the Holocaust.

While still at work on the manuscript, Rosen privately described Saving the Jews as “a defense attorney’s brief” for FDR. He made the statement in a conversation on November 4, 2001, with Benyamin “Buddy” Korn, former executive editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, and son of American Jewish historian Rabbi Dr. Bertram W. Korn, at a conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, in Norfolk, Virginia.1 Asked by Korn what his next book would be, Rosen replied that he was writing a book about FDR and the Holocaust, explaining, “I see myself as FDR’s defense attorney; I am writing a brief on his behalf.” "My research in the archives and the history of the times [was what] led me ... [to conclude] that Roosevelt did not abandon the Jews of Europe," according to Rosen. (p. xxiv) Likewise, Rosen's web site describes the book as "based on vigorous research." However, a close examination of the sources listed in Rosen's end notes finds that 91% of them are secondary sources --that is, other authors' published books or articles-- rather than original archival research by Rosen. In 135 instances throughout the text, Rosen quotes other authors by name, and in many additional instances he quotes or closely paraphrases other authors, sometimes without appropriate attribution.

[BroJoeK]

af_vet_1981: "You are accused of using a biased and unreliable source, and I find the report credible. Shame, shame, shame."

No, FRiend, shame on you for jumping to unwarranted conclusions.
Yes, I'll agree that Olog-hai's link criticizing Rosen's book is interesting food for thought.
But I do not buy all of it's arguments, am certain its authors are also biased, likely unreliable, and most important, they fail to address the major theme of Rosen's book, namely, that President Roosevelt deserves more credit for his efforts to save Europe's Jews than he us normally granted.

Instead, they engage in endless nitpicking of academic points of little or no interest outside their own hallowed-halls.

So, shame of you, FRiend, if you also fail to "get" the most cogent point here.