![]() ![]() He canĪccompany the main actors down the rutted, twisting road and feel-well as record-the bumps and turns. ![]() The great historian combines the feel and immediacy of the participant with the distance and perspective of the critic who can put events in their broadest context, tap wide sources of data and judgement, and enjoy all the blessings of hindsight. History is written by the survivors-but new generations brng new survivors. The trouble is that historians neverĬome in with a final verdict: usually they are a hung jury. Too opaque or some leader too inscrutable, we comfort ourselves with the thought that some day the historians will decide the merits of the case or take the final measure of the man. Ore than any other people, perhaps, Americans like to leave issues to the "verdict of history." When some problem seems ![]() NovemJFK: A Memoir and More By JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS ![]()
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