novelists can write history because it is fiction . historians are stuck with the facts on the table...interpretation is what they can do...unraveling how the American lemmings-- or damned near half of them- ran off the democracy cliff is a task for the next generation.
novelists can write history because it is fiction . historians are stuck with the facts on the table...interpretation is what they can do...unraveling how the American lemmings-- or damned near half of them- ran off the democracy cliff is a task for the next generation.