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I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Tom Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard...
The premise of Hanks as history maker seemed reasonable until I flipped the page and found a two-page ad for The Pacific, the miniseries from Time Warner's HBO. TIME's objective news judgment has been seriously compromised by an act of such corporate self-promotion. Ira Pilchen, Chicago...
To say Hanks is teaching people about history is akin to saying creationism is science. There is a huge difference between a good movie filled with American propaganda that presents a skewed version of events, and a proper historical study of the subject. I totally accept that these films are...
Hanks does us all a service by helping to rekindle America's dying interest in history. With professional journalism dwindling, there is a real need for us to make sure that we understand events for ourselves. But if we deliberately look away from controversial events, we can never hope to...
Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history - say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements - it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school. Karen McFarland...