Is this a historian / journalist split? As each country falls it’s a journalistic story, and I get caught up in them. One personal aside. James Gordon Bennet Jr., founder of the paper in Paris that came to be known as the International Herald Tribune (late and lamented), instructed his editors: “Names, names, names. News, news, news.” It’s a lesson that Shirer evidently took to heart.
Is this a historian / journalist split? As each country falls it’s a journalistic story, and I get caught up in them. One personal aside. James Gordon Bennet Jr., founder of the paper in Paris that came to be known as the International Herald Tribune (late and lamented), instructed his editors: “Names, names, names. News, news, news.” It’s a lesson that Shirer evidently took to heart.