Here is a review left by a customer on a product. Would you say he was satisfied or dissatisfied?
Title: Not quite the whole story
Review: Wrting the history of an ancient event---and the 1948 presidential election is an ancient event---leaves you at the mercy of the written word since nearly all of the major players are gone. And that written word can be treacherous when it is not downright misleading. Dr. Karabell depends, as all historians must, on printed or Oral History accounts of the events he reports...and those reports are often self serving when they aren't downright false. Dr. Karabell does a workmanlike job in describing the 1948 campaign but the small errors that keeep popping up are annoying (James Reston was not a columnist for the New York Times in 1948 nor was Thomas Dewey a US Attorney in New York) and makes one wonder about the larger facts.
