{"id":1129,"date":"2012-02-05T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:27:09","slug":"wild-bill-donovan-the-spymaster-who-created-the-oss-and-modern-american-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bill Donovan, The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Douglas Waller, 2011,\u00c2\u00a0Free Press, New York<\/p>\n<p>This looked like a pretty good book as the subject sounded pretty interesting.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0On the plus side, the book did have a lot of information about what went on behind the scenes in World War II.\u00c2\u00a0 On the downside, for a biography, I didn&#8217;t feel as if I really knew Bill Donovan after reading the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The author provides a really good\u00c2\u00a0accounting of his actions and deeds, but I felt he somehow came up short in revealing the real person behind all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 The narrative also left me cold as it was primarily a chronological accounting of all the things that Bill Donovan did.\u00c2\u00a0 While Waller tried to provide a picture of Donovan through his relationships with members of his family, he just doesn&#8217;t seem to project the person well.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that the author managed to make what should have been a fascinating story\u00c2\u00a0very dull. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Douglas Waller, 2011,\u00c2\u00a0Free Press, New York This looked like a pretty good book as the subject sounded pretty interesting.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0On the plus side, the book did have a lot of information about what went on behind the scenes in World <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1129\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,21],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}