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...been eons since anyone has made a movie like this one, in which white men and Indians endlessly and mindlessly bash away at one another. Scripts about the Indian wars probably do not have to deal with weighty matters like racism, as revisionist film historians insist. But the typical skulk-and-scalp epic today appears feeble even just as entertainment...
...good as they said they were. America became a miracle of sheer energy and wealth and life: an incandescence, a genetic wonderworks that the Old World stared at in astonishment. The spectacle of such opportunity got the immigrant adrenaline going. New Americans rose to the occasion more often than revisionist history is inclined to admit. The melting pot functioned better than the current assumption of ethnic conflict supposes. Whatever the economic trammels, the U.S. progressively developed a social mobility, a standard of living and individual freedom that no other society had ever offered...
...apologized for them." When Novelist Mary McCarthy made equally hostile remarks about Hellman on the Dick Cavett Show, a lawsuit followed. Hellman is unlikely to take Hook to court; his evidence is clear, weighty and damning. But even here, he insists on a scorched-earth policy. The fumbling, revisionist introduction to Hellman's Scoundrel Time, by Garry Wills, "has unconsciously reconstructed the Kremlin's propaganda line. The only omission is the failure to charge the U.S. with the guilt of conducting germ war are in North Korea." Disingenuousness requires analysis, not overkill...
...author of An Agent on the Other Side, follows sleuth and Booth with verve, humor and impressive scholarship. As he points out, "In the century that has passed since one of the most important single events in American history, not a single book written about it, traditionalist or revisionist, can be relied upon to be accurate, even as to details that should not be controversial, and which don't seem to have any sinister meaning." For lovers of the Learned Footnote, this may be one of the most edifying thrillers in years...
Grossman harbors a revisionist belief: technology retards productivity by ultimately robbing people of creativity. "The new office technology is a step backward. The worker gets bored as hell with what he is doing. A person used to sit down and type a letter and identify with it. Now we put it into one big damn machine, change a few words and produce 100 or 1,000 different letters. We have dehumanized a lot of things...