Title: Don't get too close...............
Product review: Don't get too close to the present with this book! I found the first half very engaging and thought-provoking. I didn't disagree with any of his interpretations until we got into the 20th century and oh my gosh! Warren G. Harding was a fine president? FDR was a Commie who ruined America? Nixon didn't know about Watergate? I can't imagine (because I stopped reading) that Reagan would be anything less than a combination of Jesus, Charlemagne and Sister Theresa, and anybody who opposed Reaganomics must be clones of Charles Manson. Mr. Johnson seems to be able to carefully weigh and consider evidence from long ago, but when he gets towards modern times, he becomes a Rush Limbaugh-sputtering and spitting clown. But read up until the 20th century and you'll be rewarded. And as a high school U.S. History teacher, I might even assign some of the later chapters to illustrate how bizarre some thinking has gotten in this age of Political Extremism and Quackery.
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