Profile: Talking with Pierre Berton

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  • Douglas Leighton

Abstract

Résumé: Dans cette entrevue accordée à Douglas Leighton, universitaire de formation, l'écrivain Pierre Berton discute des dangers du révisionnisme politique et de la différence entre histoire populaire et histoire scientifique; le célèbre auteur résume ensuite sa carrière et présente ses projets. Summary: In his introductory comments and interview with Pierre Berton, Douglas Leighton, an academic historian, conducts discussion on the difference between academic and popular writing, as well as on many of the revisionist and other issues confronting all historians. Berton briefly surveys his career and comments on his current projects.

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2007-12-24

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