The Times Of Their Lives
Beyond the obvious quality of truth-discovery, revisionist history has an appeal in the humor that is often found when comparing fact to fiction. James and Patricia Scott Deetz, hereafter referred to as "Deetz" because, apparently, all but two of the two-hundred and ninety-one pages were written by James (this accreditation process following the spirit of assigning Yoko Ono song co-authorship status when she made those LSD-induced cat screeches in the background of all of John Lennon's songs), provide plenty of explicit and subtle humor in their myth-busting expose on the Plymouth settlers, The Times of Their Lives.
Accomplished through a call-and-response formula that embeds the myths, the more accurate revisions, the explanation of the evidence to support the revisions, and then a discussion of the origins of the myths, Deetz deftly fuels the intellectual curiosity of the reader through most of the book. The aforementioned formula is used from the onset as he discusses the......
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