MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Review of The Untold History of the United States, a book and television series by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick [Gallery Books, 750 pp., $30.00; Showtime, ten episodes ]
By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, Feb. 21, 2013 issue
[.....] Although Stone and Kuznick’s claim that their efforts reflect the dominant view of American history inside the universities, the work of many highly distinguished and influential scholars ranging from the traditionalist John Lewis Gaddis to the revisionist-influenced Melvyn P. Leffler indicates otherwise.2 The soundness of Stone and Kuznick’s work, though, depends not on its intellectual pedigree but on how the authors render the historical record. An examination of their account of the pivotal events of the mid-1940s, the apex of their drama, is useful in arriving at an assessment of their intellectual rigor. [....]
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