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Review title: FICTION TRUER THAN FACT
Product review: I loved this book because it captures what I've always felt about history -- that you can't write accurate history simply by hewing to facts. Whose facts are they? Which facts are you leaving out? How could, for example, any "historical" recreation of the Vietnam War ever accurately and faithfully capture the surreal nature of that war? This author seems to understand that the story of the American Revolution is more than the sum of the facts; it's a story that can only be faithfully captured in fiction form. The reader/reviewer from NC who insulted the people who've liked this book because he thinks they don't know the difference between fact and fiction misses the point altogether: sometimes fiction is truer than fact. That, it seems to me, is the author's ultimate point.
