They proved that there was, in fact, a substantial market for just such skepticism about the glorious American past. They proved beyond any doubt that the public would not rise up in indignation and smite any author who dared to question the motives and the wisdom of even the most venerated American presidents. One of the forces involved in the recent heating up of the perennial American-history wars was the brilliant critical and popular success, during the 1970s and early 1980s, of the first three books in Gore Vidal's six-volume 1 "American Chronicle" series of historical novels about the United States.
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