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Just finished "Expanded Universe", a collection of short stories and essays by Robert Heinlein that I bought from Baen in 2005. I have mixed feelings about this one. I enjoyed the fiction, but found much of the non-fiction (a lot of it vitriolic rants directed against the Soviet Union) to be rather distasteful. The pinnacle of the distastefulness was undoubtedly a heated polemic written by Mr Heinlein in the 1950 arguing against a campaign to persuade President Eisenhower to ban atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons; a campaign which Mr Heinlein appeared to view as a communist plot! I suppose I should just regard it as a product of its times (the 1950s) when seeing "Reds under the bed" was the normal thing in the US.
Not good for my blood pressure, so I really can't recommend this one.
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