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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 300015" data-attributes="member: 5724">fiction vrs historyHow much fiction do you allow in your history books before you classify them as fiction?Washington chopping down the cherry tree.  If i included that in my history book as history not myth, would that be ok as long as i was just trying to show how the americans felt about their first president?How many falsehoods do i have to pass off as fact in order to help someone "understand the big picture" before you'd say i wasn't writing history?I'd like to hear you opinions about that subject.  And not really generalizations.  does 80% fact and 20% "fiction in order to convey an understanding of the big picture" history?  90% 10%?  I'd like a number if possible.And once you come up with that number i'd like you to estimate for me what %'s Mr. Leckies work would fall under.  Though how you could do that i dont know, since he has prevented you from veryifying much of his information by leaving out his sources.As for your using the word scholar to apply to Mr. Leckie's book i think, even by your own definition, that "fact" is questionable since he did not follow required historical method by showing his sources. That in and of itself disqualifies Mr. Leckie the title of scholar, at least for this single work.  Never mind that he cant read a dictionary, well im exaggerating there, he just didn't have the space to write the real entymology of the word "infantry".  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />joe b.</blockquote>

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