Weekly Standard Contributor

J. P. McGrath

1 article 1999

J. P. McGrath contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1999, writing on historical topics. Beyond this contribution, little public information is readily available about the author.

ALTERING HISTORY

January 18, 1999 · Magazine

"The president's enemies played on his weak character to get him to commit crimes, then used their majority . . . to try to drive him from office." This is how Jonathan Alter summarized last year's events in a recent Newsweek column. It may be the most fatuous journalistic sentence written in a…