tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post3014692754498352696..comments2024-03-28T16:44:34.887-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Where are standards: Within the guild, such things simply aren’t said!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25638128830922034922012-02-01T16:55:02.889-05:002012-02-01T16:55:02.889-05:00Oh my God: the book "comes packaged with blur...Oh my God: the book "comes packaged with blurbs from Douglas Brinkley, Walter Isaacson, Brian Williams, Peggy Noonan, and Goodwin (who surely cannot regard this as a meritorious book)". <br /><br />Peggy Noonan? She of the George W. Bush-as-firefighter-cum-Superman "Where's Sally?" yarn? That Peggy Noonan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31349407688493694822012-02-01T16:50:01.697-05:002012-02-01T16:50:01.697-05:00I got as far as Greenberg's comment that the b...I got as far as Greenberg's comment that the book "is not the product of extensive research". Beautiful. Sweet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68254530316086485012012-02-01T12:17:46.696-05:002012-02-01T12:17:46.696-05:00I'm only a paragraph into the review and OH BO...I'm only a paragraph into the review and OH BOY...<br /><br />LOL<br /><br />"It has drawn positive or polite reviews from several respectable publications. This tells us only that the punditocracy cannot be relied on to summon any discernment when it comes to history."<br /><br />Ouuuuuuch.willyjsimmonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563573223612232671noreply@blogger.com