[Eric in the Ozarks]

Modern writing is full of revisionist history. I just chewed through a dreadful New Yorker article on Churchill that took the same slant...

[fourdeuce82d]

"...dreadful New Yorker article on Churchill that took the same slant."

Did you catch at the end when he said, in effect, that sometimes the myth that grows up around someone may be more important, and valuable, than the reality of the person? I thought that was interesting- for a lefty, a thought that was a pretty large admission- and he did give Churchill credit for having a gut level anamadversion to hitler & national socialism...