“We have reached a point where the public accepts the fact that the prime necessity is not to be told the truth, but to be told what it wants to hear.”

Bernard De Voto

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About Bernard De Voto

Historian American

Bernard Augustine De Voto was an influential American historian, essayist, and novelist. He was a prominent authority on the American West, winning the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1948 for his book 'Across the Wide...

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