Don't get me started on her. She calls herself a historian and the media goes along with it, but she has ZERO academic credentials and it shows in her work. I mean, Barbara Tuchman wasn't an academic historian but she also just organized and presented facts, she didn't really do original research, which is where the real historians are valuable because they understand how to properly research history. Applebaum doesn't have this background but wants us to believe her heavily biased research is valid.