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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
If we are going to take your approach, Tex, we wouldn't be able to accuse John Krakauer of dishonesty. Selective fact presenting to make a point.
So instead, I choose to accuse both of you of dishonesty.
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I never read Krakauer's book so I can't speak to what's honest or dishonest about it. But there isn't a historian or journalist in the world who doesn't order their reporting of the facts according to what they think is most significant.
If relating history were so clear cut, we wouldn't have a thousand biographies of Abraham Lincoln. We'd have one.
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