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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (671)	11/25/2003 8:41:31 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

DEAN AND TRUMAN MSI, I recently saw a Dean interview where he was asked what his favorite book was. He mentioned David McCullough's "Truman". At over 1,000 pages, I thought I might be getting into some meat on the matter of the creation of the CIA, the founding of the Department of Defense, the 1947 National Security Act and other below the radar policy matters. I was wrong. I cannot for the life of me figure out why Dean mentioned this boat anchor, except to merely suggest a passing interest in Truman's administration and style. They do share a common bluntness and perhaps honesty. A trait definitely not shared by David McCullough who did a remarkable job of wasting his reader's time on trivialities like Bess's psychological distress in the White House, Truman's contentious relationship with his eccentric and rigid mother-in-law and his defense of his daughter's career on stage. McCullough is guilty of painting a superficial Norman Rockwell-type portrait in words of a very complex man, i.e. Truman. Instead of providing any real substance on the remarkable implications of the actions of the Truman Administration in the creating of the hysteria called the Cold War, we get marmalade and tea parties. Goebbels was the godfather of propaganda. Allan Dulles was a great student. And McCullough the great biographer of the propaganda "line".