Ron Bulman Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Well, thanks. I missed the one reference in the article to Florida and assumed the were talking about Italy. As I'd never heard of Naples Florida, and I like geography. Had to google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Thanks Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) Yes, and Goodwin had to make a settlement with the author of the Kathleen Kennedy biography, Lynne McTaggart. Goodwin's excuse for the plagiarism was beyond feeble -- shameful. Read this piece by Philip Nobile on Goodwin also plagiarizing from David McCullough's TRUMAN and on McCullough's own egregious falsehood about the A-bomb: http://mobylives.com/Nobile_Pulitzer_speech.html McCullough was also caught rewriting a quote from Thomas Jefferson about John Adams to embellish Adams's reputation for his biography of the second president. As you probably know, McCullough is a Bonesman, and it's no accident he was the "historian" chosen by Dallas to give its keynote speech in Dealey Plaza during the 2013 whitewashing ceremony held behind police lines. Edited December 5, 2019 by Joseph McBride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Reilley Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 12/4/2019 at 11:27 PM, Ron Bulman said: Well, thanks. I missed the one reference in the article to Florida and assumed the were talking about Italy. As I'd never heard of Naples Florida, and I like geography. Had to google it. I'm here in Naples now. Second week of December and we are hunkered down in 82 degrees and a little breeze. Best spot on the map if you ask me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) What McCullough did with the atomic estimates on Hiroshima was just a disgrace. Recall, JIm Douglass opens his book with a comparison of Truman with JFK. And how this guy is then asked to speak at the JFK fiftieth in Dallas, I mean, go figure. Jeff, Naples is extraordinary. One of the best kept secrets in America. The east coast answer to Santa Barbara. Edited December 10, 2019 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) A great book is Gar Alperovitz's THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB (1995). It goes into fine detail, thoroughly researched, to debunk the myth about the huge number of deaths expected in a US ground invasion of Japan, a figure that was used to justify the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima (no one has ever come up with anything close to a plausible explanation for dropping the bomb on Nagasaki beyond crass bureaucratic/war crimes inertia). After the war, Secretary of War Henry Stimson and his young amaneunsis McGeorge Bundy in Stimon's memoirs pushed the inflated expected death/casualty figures for a land invasion. The news media followed suit, and some still do out of ignorance or reliance on war propaganda long after the fact. The New York Times long ago ran a scoop about a document that was unearthed quoting General George C. Marshall with a far lower expected casualty figure for a land invasion of Japan, but that story is still largely ignored. The lies about the bomb are one of the key myths about postwar American life. Edited December 10, 2019 by Joseph McBride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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