Anyone watching this series on Showtime? Very interesting, 6 documentary style episodes so far, narrated and produced by Oliver Stone.
That's a neat one too, the way they use actors and cgi to portray historical figures, and events. The Oliver Stone series is all news footage, and real clips, along with some random movie clips that pertain to the subject they are talking about.
The victors always write history. However the volumnes of documentation available to us from the founding of the US through today pretty much restrict any recounting from being too far off the mark. Unless one is a total conspiricy nut with a tin foil hat (sort of like Oliver) who believes a secret underground group controls the world.
that isnt an argument in favor of stone. oliver stone is an idiot. that your textbooks are flawed doesnt make oliver stone any less of a kook.
