[FreedomPoster]

Agreed, to a point. Both are important in the long run. We'd never get the popular impact of the information in this book, without Ann and Mona's efforts at putting that information in a format that will reach a mass audience. With that popular impact, we reduce the chances of the history being effectively re-written via Big Lie techniques, and this book being ignored/marginalized.

[CatoRenasci]

Your point is fair enough, and well-taken: we need the eyes of the general educated citizen on the academy. My point, however, was more that popularizers like Ann and Mona will never be taken seriously by scholars, and the lasting impact on future scholarship can only come from scholarly exposes such as these by Haynes and Klehr.

[LiteKeeper]

Both are important in the long run. We'd never get the popular impact of the information in this book, without Ann and Mona's efforts at putting that information in a format that will reach a mass audience.

Could not agree with you MORE! Too often, the academics are never heard because they write at a level, and in arenas, far beyond the average "voter." Ann and Mona's works are important because they initiate the population to otherwise esoteric areas of interest.