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Title: Upside down fantasy history
Review: This fictionalized version of the Cook debacle is exactly what congressman S. D. Fess was talking about in 1915. He said then, before congress "A group of people, some of them innocent and misled and others not classifiable in polite terms, have been busily engaged in trying to filch from Peary the credit due him as discoverer of the North Pole in the interests of Dr. Cook. Most Americans supposed that the Cook issue died a natural death years ago. The time will undoubtedly come when... the activities of this man and the press of the country will ultimately do its part against the circulation of perversions of history with respect to the great feat that Admiral Peary achieved, an honor of which through all future ages no nation can rob us."Fess would undoubtably kick about in the grave to read this novel! As unbelievable as it seems, some people are still back in 1915 "filching" from Peary. If that is your cup of tea, this is your kind of history-fiction.
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