Accepted View Quotes

“But why polarize the story?" I asked. "Aren't you swinging the pendulum to the opposite extreme?"

"Perhaps," Reynolds said. "But if we swing the pendulum all the way over to our side, maybe we'll nudge the accepted view over a bit closer to where it belongs.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War