“As the war museum controversy some years back should have demonstrated, history is not a series of pleasant bedtime stories, pre-sanitized so that only the worthy appear in order to make our hearts thump with a patriotic pit-a-pat.”
“That applies to history,” Bothwell observed. “The good, the bad and the ugly should all be present and should allow the reader to make up his or her own mind.
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As the indispensable Jeremy Swanson points out in his email newsletter True Blue today (contact him here to subscribe free), one name — that of the (ooops!) “Greatest Canadian” — was mysteriously left out of the roster of Very Bad People in that article.
Funny how all that “due diligence” rarely includes naming famous leftist heroes with dubious ideas…
