"“I just finished a children’s book on Grover Cleveland. I know all of them [the former presidents], and they are deeply flawed—but none of them have the glaring flaws of Donald Trump. Those of us who spend our lives studying American history are upset about the rise of Trump. There’s been nobody like him. I wish there were a Murrow [Edward R.] or a Cronkite [Walter] to expose him,” Burns said, voicing nostalgia for the giants of the journalistic past who took on Joe McCarthy and his communist witch hunts, and brought the truth about the Vietnam War into American living rooms. Today’s media, for whatever reason, has failed, said Burns."
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Top American Historians Find a Modern Way to Rip Donald Trump; Daily Beast, 7/13/16
Eleanor Clift, Daily Beast; Top American Historians Find a Modern Way to Rip Donald Trump:
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