Re: Thomas Franks on Joe Klein and Harry Truman
Colin Brace quoted:
Harry Truman was no centrist, and neither was he a radical. Still, listening to his ferocious ad-libs back in 1948 (which was, incidentally, not during the Great Depression), his audience could have had few doubts about what the Democratic Party stood for.
The CIA, the Bretton Woods Institutions, NATO, the Red Purge…