I am grateful you are not "...letting it go!" I have been following your comments and interviews currently on Oppenheimer. You have written a number of books on the topic and I purchased them years ago along with your other works. I have long followed your commentary on music. I marvel at your versatility.
The ageism comment below is repulsive to me as I too am in my 70s. Warren Buffet is in his 90s and people learn much from him. You have a long way to go. Keep up the excellent work you do because you have much to say and you do it in a lucid understated way.
Also the criticism that you make money from books and your work and somehow that diminishes what you do is such a wonderful Marxist comment.
One of old friends was in the US Navy during the Vietnam War, and they made all the sailors go up on deck to watch a nuclear bomb test. He was an unwitting subject of a test of radiation. Now he has cancer in 2023. I'm pretty sure he is not the only one. But it seems like the Department of Defense gets away with this sort of terrible thing all the time.
Here's my advice, not knowing you, but since we're both in our 70s: Let it go. To paraphrase a Harvard psychiatrist/author I once interviewed for GQ for a storey about how to age gracefully, "If you're 65 and still get up in the morning each day wanting to be better at something than someone else who does what you do, you've missed the whole point of growing old well." Let the movie be. Let other books be. At 76 you really care about how many books you sell? Or whether you're the best historian here? I myself am going to read your book and Kai's before I see the movie...but.
Greg, you are a great writer! ✍️😎
I am grateful you are not "...letting it go!" I have been following your comments and interviews currently on Oppenheimer. You have written a number of books on the topic and I purchased them years ago along with your other works. I have long followed your commentary on music. I marvel at your versatility.
The ageism comment below is repulsive to me as I too am in my 70s. Warren Buffet is in his 90s and people learn much from him. You have a long way to go. Keep up the excellent work you do because you have much to say and you do it in a lucid understated way.
Also the criticism that you make money from books and your work and somehow that diminishes what you do is such a wonderful Marxist comment.
One of old friends was in the US Navy during the Vietnam War, and they made all the sailors go up on deck to watch a nuclear bomb test. He was an unwitting subject of a test of radiation. Now he has cancer in 2023. I'm pretty sure he is not the only one. But it seems like the Department of Defense gets away with this sort of terrible thing all the time.
Wonderful work Greg.
Here's my advice, not knowing you, but since we're both in our 70s: Let it go. To paraphrase a Harvard psychiatrist/author I once interviewed for GQ for a storey about how to age gracefully, "If you're 65 and still get up in the morning each day wanting to be better at something than someone else who does what you do, you've missed the whole point of growing old well." Let the movie be. Let other books be. At 76 you really care about how many books you sell? Or whether you're the best historian here? I myself am going to read your book and Kai's before I see the movie...but.