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Title: Fiction as History
Review: It is sad that this work has become the most popular, certainly on college campuses, of the many histories of the conflicts between the settlers and the indians. Dee Brown was a very talented writer and he wrote some valuable histories. This volume, although well written, is not an accurate historical account. Like many "histories" that appeared in the seventies it is a polemic disguised as a work of scholarship. The book may be summarized as "red man good, white man bad". Such a simplistic morality fable does not do justice to either the settlers or the indians who were engaged in a great struggle that deserves an accurate retelling.
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