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Let's Call It Fiction
Brenner, Anita | October 17, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Spain in Revolt. A History of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 and a Study of Its Social, Political, and Economic Causes," by Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard. There is a certain school of radical writers who have as little enthusiasm for the stern beauties of fact and as little respect for its dynamics as the textbook writers who teach the mysterious non-sequiturs of elementary-school history — that the American Revolution was caused by dumping tea into Boston Harbor, that the English turned Protestant because Henry VIII wanted another wife and so on. The radical writers and the textbook historians use a different language and different formulas, but the object in each case is the same.

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SPAIN in Revolt. A History of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 & a Study of Its Social, Political, & Economic Causes (Book); SPAIN -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939; REPARD, Theodore; GANNES, Harry; UNITED States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; SPAIN; UNITED States
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