Journalists, particularly American reporters, love to make and break celebrities, and subscribe almost exclusively to the implicit theory that great or bad men and women shape history, almost to the exclusion of all other theories. Historians are skeptical of this theory, and take a much broader view.
Journalists like to think of their work as the “first…
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