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To: Fiji Hill

Excellent. I haven’t seen that book before—I’ll have to check it out.


26 posted on 08/20/2017 8:41:54 AM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Antoninus; Fiji Hill

When I was a girl in the 70s, the school libraries were full of biographies of historical figures of every persuasion, all quite positive about that person’s accomplishments, no matter which side of whatever he/she was on.

I mean, what about “Red Hugh of Donegal”? What is the “right side” (for American elementary school students) of the Elizabethan Era conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.


29 posted on 08/20/2017 3:59:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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