I have read surely 100 books, if not more, about Franklin Roosevelt and his times. I would guess that surely 50 quote the famous judgment of legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who met FDR for the first time in 1933 when the then President Elect visited Holmes at his house in Washington, DC:…
Tag: World War II
Peter Watson’s The German Genius: Ist es deutsch? Ja, allzu deutsch.
Peter Watson’s massive (996 pages) study, The German Genius, is one of the most confounding books I’ve ever read, “impressive” for most of its great length, often “brilliant” in its discussion of 20th century Germany, but then lurching downhill drastically in places, descending to the level of Nazi apologetics at its worst—plus one whopping mathematical…