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Flashpoints, February 8, 2009
Must be combined with earlier Landslide tome [re: Reagan Resolution actually trying to practice what the "Reagan-auts" tried to sell] for historical perspective and impacts. Although print media often write a "first draft of history", a curious misnomer exists when DC officialdom's interlopers -- acting as former office holders publishing their breath-taking (sic.) "tell all, kiss all" profit making tomes - most of which pass their gas when leave the auditorium unannounced and unheralded. Therefore: Good riddance to the bloody lot of 'em all, and indeed so! However, McManus retains his stature as one of the truly exceptional & keen observors of activities inside the DC Beltway. Thus doing and expertly so, McManus trains others, guides us then, while remarkably & simultaneously gently nudging us toward Truth with a capital T! We are the better for his insights, often delayed due to over-classification by some self-seeking, pandering mugwumps of no political import: Neither now nor subsequently! History shall damn them after first consigning their lot to the hottest underworld. McManus, by both happy coincidence and boundless enthusiasms, lifts us then soars over both the muck and mud to cut to the quick in fine fashion! Read this tome repeatedly, as I have - each time with much greater appreciation of the intense reportage and investigative work worthy of a John Le Carre novel, at times.
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