"writer of some repute"

I think not. This writing is not very good. Heck, I even found a sentence fragment. Maybe with that unemployed time he can check his grammer more carefully. (Not that I mean to belittle his situation, but let's not go around calling people great writers just because some of us might share his feelings.)

It's not that I don't know that the Eisenhower era was exciting or interesting or had a large amount of important events. I just was trying to interject a little levity into my review. Besides, I don't believe that everyone on /. knows their history, so I wanted to entice them to read on. Thanks for your thoughts though.