Title: Creating history in his own image.
Product review: I concede that history is written with some bias as to the opinion of the Author, but historians are, or should be, purveyors of those opinions, not the manufacturers of them. Historians are not writing history, they are in a manner of speaking, collecting and reporting on history as it was written. I would not recommend this book as a basis for understanding this period of time (Try Benson Bobricks - Angel in the Whirlwind, or McCullough's - John Adams). This book is history according to Mr. Vidal. His references to modern day events and persons are more an indication of his political leanings, than his connection of current events with events of the past. You can not understand the present by making moral judgements on historical individuals since they did not have benefit of your understanding of the past, conversely, they had no understanding of what was to come. History is becoming a victim of politics; when it should be an accounting of the past. Skip-it.
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