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Sean Wilentz: Wrong on 'Untold History,' Wrong on History in General
Submitted by Persona non grata on Mon, 2013-02-25 01:00
But this is what we can know: if Wilentz's understanding of history is correct, U.S. cold war policies should have ended with the cold war itself. If the leftists were right, U.S. policies would have continued almost completely unchanged – except for the pretexts provided to Americans.
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