William L Putnam
Commendable but not recommended as a way of life.History with an agenda is always a little unnerving. History is always a little unnerving. Though Kauffman and Putnam go about "setting the record straight" with the necessary nods at the opposing viewpoint, it is clear that they intend to leave one sort of taste in the reader's mouth. Perhaps if they hadn't been quite so blatant about their project, or perhaps if they had never acknowledged that they were doing it, my mind would not have put up so many fences and walls to keep them from getting into me. While it covers an interesting story, it fails to do more than be finger-pointing.
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