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Is everything we know about American history wrong?

Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
By Louis Bayard

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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 10:45 AM

    I've been teaching this stuff for years...

    ...at the university level. I find this book to be useful but something less than the revelation the reviewer suggests it to be. None of the information disclosed here presents anything new or particularly startling. The utility of this tome may lie only in the fact that these lesser-known data have been assembled in a single volume.

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