...That wouldn't make his book an any less interesting read. From all that I've read, Klein is not very highly respected as a journalistic researcher. And he very likely didn't get much guidance from his publisher, Regenery. The company has been the publisher of far right wing authors for more than half a century. From it's website, they say...
When the Henry Regnery Company first opened its doors in 1947, its mission was to contribute to the rebuilding of Western civilization after World War II, publishing serious works of cultural recovery, including, as it turned out, establishing and sustaining the postwar conservative intellectual movement in America. Over the years, the company has published such authors as Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind), William F. Buckley, Jr. (God and Man at Yale), Wilmoore Kendall (The Conservative Affirmation), Whittaker Chambers (Witness), James Burnham (The Suicide of the West), and many other classics of modern American conservatism....Regnery Publishing is as central to the conservative movement today, as it was nearly sixty-two years ago when Henry Regnery helped start it.
OK, so we know where the auithor and publisher might be coming from. But again, all that doesn't make
The Amateur any less interesting as a read. Believe it or not, if it wasn't for the $15 price tag to download it onto my iPad, it would be there now. I haven't downloaded it because I've figured there are lots of other better ways I can figure out to spend fifteen bucks. Maybe a good Clive Cussler novel.