"When Thunder Rolled" review in ASPJ

Why do critics so slavishly look for this attribute in a work?

I suppose it's a cheap way to assure the reader that the critic has
read everything about the subject.

It's like "full disclosure". Half the time you see "full disclosure"
in a review or op-ed, the writer is just boasting about his
connections, not warning the reader about a possible conflict of
interest. (Full disclosu I write reviews for the Wall Street
Journal


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I haven't finished the book yet.
I worked the Korat flightline from Nov65 to Nov66 as a fire control
tech. In that time I probably worked on Ed's plane at least once. Some
of the things that I recall, he points out. Nothing new in those, but
there are many more insights into the pilots life that we never saw or
understood that are new to me even after years of reading.

New in the book for me, I watched a 105 that had the tail wrapped in
flames fly off the end of the runway and always thought that the pilot
had died when he dropped into the crash site. Good news, he lived! The
guys in my shop all knew the original mission of the plane and the use
of he radar in that role. We though pilots only wrote up radar
malfunctions to keep a plane on the ground so that other needed
repairs could be completed. I only hope more pilots used it in the way
that he did, makes me feel good! They even used the terrain avoidance
radar, wow!

We always took sight system problems seriously, we took it all
serious. Always glad to help the comm/nav guys. Ed, Glad to have
helped!