Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself
She discovered about a dozen instances when Mr. Navarro, formerly a service school teacher at the University of California, Irvine, had actually conjured up Ron Vara. Mr. Navarro holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.”Death by China,”Mr. Navarro’s influential book, which he wrote with Greg Autry, used a Ron Vara quote to set up a section about how the American eagle had become the world’s most significant pigeon: “The Manufacturing Dragon is ravenous.