But my attempt was sort of a tour of the surface what you get from looking at ordinary accounts of the times beginning in 1918. But the next time I looked at the period, when I was writing the history of Raytheon, the background looked different. I began to go into his tory in a more serious way. It is astonishing how many bad historians the United States entertains. We have fellows writing our history who don t have an idea in their head all they do is repeat what somebody else wrote.
Every generation has secrets.
You have to dig to find them, and you may be sure that some won t please your audience. Otherwise, you simply are repeating what other people have written. The United States is very poorly served historically, and our scholars systematically have written up in a very flattering way some of the stupidest and worst men in the world. I of England came together. But they weren t commissioned.