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the fifties: nobody’s mad at nobody
Like no other decade, the 1950′s incarnated the process of myth making in a very conspicuous manner into rosy myths in the shadows of unrosy reality that has resulted in some enduring Great Revivals that have tended to get out … Continue reading
gang that couldn’t shoot straight arrows
Historical revisionism that is clearly not even in the category of the plausible. The capture of Jerusalem by Saladin re-jigged to make it seem like hordes of spear chucking natives from the heart of the jungle, primitive and savage, required … Continue reading
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Tagged Balian of Ibelin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Pope Gregory VII, Robert Onderdonk, Robert Redford, Saladin capture of Jerusalem, Sam Peckinpah, The Alamo Davy Crockett, The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah, Walon Green
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