Hail to the Chief
Friday, May 11, 2007
Michael Beschloss, presidential historian and author, 8Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 (Simon and Schuster) talks about what makes a president great.
Presidential Courage is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Presidential Courage is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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A new book by an Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, titled "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" shows why Israeli actions in the so-called "war of independence" and Truman's support of them were anything but courageous.
As usual the Palestinian narrative is excluded by your guest. Too bad Truman didn't have a Palestinian friend who would have stopped the Nakba (Catastrophe). Courage is not the right word. Racism is more like it. (Too Jews and Arabs alike it seems.)
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