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American Heritage MagazineOctober 2005    Volume 56, Issue 5
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Overrated & Underrated



Is the great Orson Welles possibly not all that great? Is there something coarse and generic about one of our most beloved war memorials? Which of our Founding Fathers deserves better of us? Which of our painters? For the eighth year in a row historians and journalists assess the ever-shifting reputations of people and events, and once again affirm that history is never history—that it is the most volatile, passionate, and living of pursuits.


African-American Comedian
Baseball Statistic
Celebrity Trial
Children’s Book Writer
Conspiracy Theory
Crooner
Director
Football Coach
Founding Father
Historical Museum
Lincoln Speech
Movie Classic
Naval Battle
“Old West” State
Painter
Soft Drink
Spy
War Memorial
Western Figure
 
 
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