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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Sorry, but that's just my opinion. I have no doubt about his impressive credentials in America and at Harvard, but they didn't seem to serve him well in command of the Combined Fleet.
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I'm inclined to concur with your opinion here, and admittedly, it has been my opinion ever since I read Shattered Sword.
@Dread Knot:
As to my ealier reference involving John Toland's book, as I alluded, I don't believe in the conspiracy theory either. BTW, Toland
was a graduate of Williams College (
undergraduate degree ) and
did win a
Pulitzer Prize for "
The Rising Sun". Yes, "Infamy" was controversial when it first came out 30 years ago (
also when I first read it). Books like this inevitably will be controversial. But Toland is, by no means, the picture you have painted of him. I suppose Billy Mitchell was deemed just as controversial when he said that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor.
As my English Lit professor used to say, "
Bad reviews are not necessarily a bad thing for a writer. It is when your work receives no reviews, that you should start to worry".
