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To: Ilaine who wrote (62435)	8/21/2004 3:34:05 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793896

A real historian would wait for all of the facts to come out. This highlights the natural hostility between journalists and historians. And also highlights why newspapers are dicey, even unreliable, sources for historians. Appreciate knowing of "The Unpredictable Past, by Larry Levine." Sometimes, I wonder if anything ever is the truth, or is it just a truth because we thought we just observed it? I've felt SI and now some of the blogs are at least a contemporary "truth as it is seen at the instant" repository.... Especially today, as the print media is propagandizing nearly each piece written. Someday, all that will be left to write a historical overview of the time, is the actual letters, or maybe something like SI, as it will have instant by instant views, as well as printed media views of the happenings. Couple of notes from the Amazon review: amazon.com >>>>>>>>"The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past that is unpredictable." But it is not solely in totalitarian societies that the past is contested terrain. Disagreements about the meaning and significance of past events and people have been part of the landscape in our own society from its inception. To the historian, therefore, the unpredictability of the past is no laughing matter. Indeed, so protracted have historical disputes become in recent years that there has been a growing conviction among many that the venerable craft of history is in a state of crisis. <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Through the course of the book, Levine demonstrates how history, from generation to generation, is viewed through the prism of an ever-changing present and rather than distorting our vision, offers us new ways of seeing things, fresh insights not only into the past, but into the present and the future as well. The Unpredictable Past is a remarkably wide-ranging lens for viewing the richly textured history of America.