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...Woods," or the encounter of Red Woman and White Man as seen in the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Second is "The Myth of the White Woman with a Tomahawk," or the conflict between White Woman and Red Man, exemplified by the true story of Hannah Duston, a New England lady who in 1697 axed to death ten sleeping Indians who had the misfortune to capture her. Third is "The Myth of the Good Companions in the Wilderness," the friendship of White Man and Red, as portrayed by Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook in The Leatherstocking Tales. Last, there...
Nothing Heroic. Where others have seen only romance, adventure and folksy humor, Fiedler's hawk eye spots paradox, irony and mordant wit. Hence Pocahontas is "our first celebrated traitor to her own race ... a model long in advance of Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute...
...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin. WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. By documenting the acts of indifference against European Jewry during World War II, both authors challenge Hannah Arendt's explosive argument that the Final Solution succeeded with the acquiescence of its victims...
Honesty is basic, but you can only be honest about what you know about yourself. You cannot equate honesty with brutality. In Hannah Green's book, the doctor was not brutal with the child. She did finally say, "I never promised you a rose garden." But it was only whenthe patient was ready to hear it, and had discovered that the world wasn't going to be a rose garden...
Ever since Hannah Arendt's provocative study on the Eichmann case, there has been no end of speculation along the lines of her major thesis: that the Nazis could not have succeeded in their slaughter of the Jews without the almost lamblike acquiescence of their victims. And there was no dearth of angry disagreement. These two books are the latest in a still-growing list that challenges the Arendt argument. In The Holocaust, Philadelphia-based Historian Nora Levin maintains that the Jews "resisted physically much more than is generally known, and under conditions that are scarcely credible." In While...