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Ambrose may have been an academically trained historian, but he seemed to pride himself on being a hagiographer.

Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore.

Its portrait of Berlin, and everyone around him except his sainted wife Ellin, is so sour and clammy that you might think it was written by a character assassin instead of a hagiographer.

How he grew an inch, at the age of 70, is a story that has escaped his hagiographers at Fox.

As his hagiographers tell the story, Kim II Sung’s most important intellectual achievement—his brilliant juche idea—asserts that national pride goes hand in glove with self-reliance.