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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Leading Reagan historians take on Bill O'Reilly's Killing Reagan

By Thomas Lifson

Bill O’Reilly and his “co-author” Martin Dugard have the ability to sell millions of books, so it matters a lot what they have to say in their latest collaboration, Killing Reagan. I have not read the book, but some leading Regan historians who have raise some serious alarms about the unflattering claims made in it. Writing in the Washington Post, AT contributor Paul Kengor is joined by Craig Shirley, Kiron K. Skinner, and Steven F. Hayward in pointing out the problems......“Killing Reagan,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, is supposed to be a book of new scholarship on the Reagan presidency. Instead, it restates old claims and rumors, virtually all of which have been discredited by the historical record...... there are no endnotes, no bibliography, no long list of interviewees and only a smattering of footnotes.......There are a lot of problems with some of the sources that are employed:....Unfortunately, “Killing Reagan” shows that the old misinformation (if not disinformation) still remains with us, like a demon that cannot be exorcised. It regurgitates and resurrects much material that we had thought (and hoped) was dead and done.  For example:.....To Read More....
 
My Take - For years I've been saying O'Reilly is a phony.  This is just one more example of what he's really all about - himself!

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