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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Three Historical Footnotes You’ll Never See Again

By John Harris on Sep 9, 2013
Postmodern academics are right about one thing: history is written by the victors. The Left hasn’t lost a major battle in our culture war for three generations.
Former President Herbert Hoover, who was continually recruited for delicate diplomatic and charitable missions after retiring from official service, brought both special insight and unique sources of information to the analysis of events surrounding World War Two. The cosmetic technicians who pass for historians have often managed to suppress certain embarrassing truths about Hoover’s successor. You would probably never have learned the following, for instance, unless you had read Hoover’s memoir—which you could not have done, for some reason, until a couple of years ago:…To ReadMore….

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