when reporters become scholars
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Submitted by Brian Switzer, Mar 13, 2008 08:52

Your review points out one of the fundamental problems, growing over the last 30 years or so, namely, that in North America at least, the replacement of true scholarship with the newspaper reporter's untrained, superficial, facile grasp of the "moment."

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Title	By	Date
War Games - FDR DID know Pearl Harbor was coming [137 words]	Paul Cruce	Mar 25, 2008 10:32
Terrible Review [322 words]	Max Greene	Mar 18, 2008 11:21
↔ Making the case for me [113 words]	William Maron	Mar 25, 2008 10:00
↔ Terrible comment on review [142 words]	MClark	Mar 25, 2008 13:43
Unfortunately, typical of many college history departments [37 words]	NJB	Mar 17, 2008 18:10
History updated [124 words]	Roger Strong	Mar 17, 2008 03:14
A brilliant review [198 words]	Bill Parker	Mar 15, 2008 20:38
america joined the war for other reasons than to promote freedom [140 words]	B Eluma	Mar 15, 2008 08:03
Chomskyite [67 words]	Yosifon	Mar 15, 2008 02:11
Right on the Money [50 words]	Jonathan Eddison	Mar 14, 2008 21:33
Dangerous Book? [58 words]	Robert Birnbaum	Mar 14, 2008 10:21
Fantastic review [109 words]	Ken Dobler	Mar 14, 2008 08:43
Absence of moral bearings [87 words]	Robert Landbeck	Mar 13, 2008 14:41
Venality [74 words]	Patrick	Mar 13, 2008 13:44
One myth in the smoke [149 words]	Aaron Krishtalka	Mar 13, 2008 13:00
↔ Not quite [108 words]	Kent G. Budge	Mar 20, 2008 15:08
↔ Yes, quite [355 words]	Noisesome	Mar 25, 2008 09:55
Who woulda thunk it? [23 words]	Michael Anderson	Mar 13, 2008 12:17
Well Said [28 words]	Gray Rinehart	Mar 13, 2008 09:07
what trash [119 words]	Scott Oxon	Mar 13, 2008 07:29
Hinedsight is wonderful [41 words]	Alan Lea	Mar 13, 2008 03:09
Zero attention span [61 words]	Paul Perry	Mar 13, 2008 01:07
↔ Retrospection [161 words]	Vance	Mar 13, 2008 13:14
↔ Good on your dad . . . [9 words]	gilbo	Mar 14, 2008 18:36
So where does Mr. Nicholson Baker teach? [32 words]	shriber	Mar 12, 2008 23:48
↔ Good War [45 words]	Larry	Mar 13, 2008 01:29
↔ just war [8 words]	tony o'brien	Mar 13, 2008 05:40
↔ Ho-hum [16 words]	Russ Thayer	Mar 13, 2008 08:57
a great review [19 words]	andrew	Mar 12, 2008 11:12
Smoke or fire? [128 words]	rhbee	Mar 12, 2008 10:36
↔ ⇒ when reporters become scholars [40 words]	Brian Switzer	Mar 13, 2008 08:52
↔ "allow the reader to decide"?? [39 words]	MEB	Mar 13, 2008 11:57
↔ Why does it seem that all the commenters excepting . . . [88 words]	rhbee	Mar 13, 2008 21:09

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