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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
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Books update views on revolutionary war
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — For those who wonder if the American Revolution begins and ends with Mel Gibson's red-blooded *The Patriot*, this spring might serve as an answer.
Several books about that event are coming out, including David McCullough's biography of John Adams, an anthology of writings compiled by the Library of America and Paul Lussier's debut novel, *Last Refuge of Soundrels*. Already a best seller is Joseph Ellis's *Founding Brothers*, released last fall.
The latest works reveal the different ways in which the story can still be told. McCullough and Ellis look at the revolution's leaders. Last Refuge of Scourrels and Ray Raphael's A People's History of the American Revolution the first of a series of "people's histories" published by the New Press, honor the unprivileged.
According to Barnes & Noble, Civil War titles are popular throughout the South and the Mid-Atlantic region, while the market for American Revolution books is mostly confined to the Northeast. World War II books sell everywhere.
"The American Revolution seems more remote, the way Washington seems more remote than Lincoln," he says. "For a lot of people, the revolution has the feeling of myth rather than actual history, which makes it seem unapproachable in a certain way."
"I wanted to write a story about the American Revolution from the vantage point of the common man. You don't appreciate how little there is from that point of view," says Lussier, a history major at Yale University and now a free-lance television writer.
"We thought it made history come alive," says Laurence J. Kirshbaum, chief executive of Time Warner Trade Publishing.
But publishers think the right book can break through. McCullough's work is seen as a sure thing, based on the author's record as a popular historian. Warner Books paid six figures for Lusser's irreverent novel, believing it has contemporary appeal.
"This sense of the founding fathers as the driving force is a patriarchal, ethnocentric, white man's tale," he says. "I take very serious issue with what Ellis said. From my point of view, the periphery has always been the center."
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11 __ d'sère,
France
4 Equatorial
15 Truant Gl
6 Gone by
17 Neglect
18 Blackthorn
19 Full-house
letters
20 Annovance
23 Wet behind the
Wave
24 Way in
25 Prejudices
26 South African
golfer Erie
29 Precious stone
30 Type of pear
31 Enrage
32 Abrogate
38 Ways to walk
39 Scand, country
3 Tales on a grand
scale
40 Of the skeletal
system
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46 Essences
47 Plains, IL
48 Enthusiast
50 Small spars
51 Wisdom tooth,
wax
52 Educate
56 Precautionary
measure
60 Auto gear, abbr
61 Favored ones
63 Sell out
64 been had!
64 Exciation of
resignation
66 Contents of a
will
67 Ballpoint or quill
68 Thin but strong
69 Fashions
DOWN
1 Trademark swab
2 Entreat earnestly
3 Untold centuries
4 Verbalized
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7 Jaunty
8 Pointed tools
9 Barm bellow
10 Mournful writers
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12 Go along with
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14 Weasel's kin
15 Tribal
    mot
    (viacult)
16 Theorem Lor.
17 Pinocchio or
    Ananas
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19 Eliminate
    See 23D
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    Wage-slave's
    refrain
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