His protagonist, Raimundo Silva, questions the authenticity of the accuracy of the book he was assigned to proof read. ... They don't have the luxury to stretch the truth like he observed in the book he is working on. ... If the "note" was inserted into Nietzsche's work, his entire life's work would convey a different message and his readers would be none the wiser. ... He inserts his own "not" in the book on impulse. ... One cannot discuss the issue of fact and fiction in history books without discussing the most read book in the world, the Bible. ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wrote this book in the 1630s and 1640s when he was the governor of the colony. ... Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia is a highly evolved product of this rationalist tradition. ... The Anglo-Saxons developed the most distinctive tradition of free institutions. ... It was probably the most influential book ever written in American history. ... Parrington brought the Progressive interpretation to intellectual history with his book Main Currents in American Thought. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate