Word: debunkmanship
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Rome for Ourselves, by Aubrey Menen. A handsome goody for early Christmas shoppers, with superb plates of the Roman scene and a mockingly intelligent essay in debunkmanship-the art of using the past while seeming to abuse...
...solemn and the sacred from pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches) to Hindu epics (The Ramayana). In Rome for Ourselves he takes on another highly worshipful subject-the Eternal City. Tonic in tone and eclectic in vision, Menen's superbly illustrated Rome is an amusingly literate exercise in debunkmanship, the art of using the past while appearing to abuse...
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