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A Great National Drama
Fadiman, Clifton P. | July 31, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Wave," by Evelyn Scott. Historians and historical novelists of the conventional school have conspired to make people forget that wars happen to people as well as to governments. It has long been supposed that the best way to encompass artistically a great national event was to take a bird's-eye view of it and, of course, from an altitude, a war would resolve itself into the movements of masses more or less controlled by the decisions of a few outstanding individuals and primarily actuated by some common ideal. That is the so-called heroic viewpoint.

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WAVE, The (Book); SCOTT, Evelyn; WAR; HISTORIANS; SOCIAL movements; BOOKS & reading
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