Film make Oliver Stone has often been described are weird, controversial, and outside the mainstream in so many ways, including his political views, and his many controversial films, including those on John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and the lives and personalities of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.
Many, including this blogger and author, have been skeptical about his approach to history and public affairs.
But now, Stone, and co-author Peter Kuznick of American University, have challenged all interpretations and analyses of American history since World War I, through World War II, and the Cold War and beyond, in their book and film series, entitled “Untold History Of The United States”.
They make new heroes and new demons, and turn our basic view of American history upside down and inside out.
They claim many myths exist, and rehabilitate many personalities that they feel have been given short shrift.
They are strong critics of American foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson, and offer a leftist view on the American past.
Whether one accepts or rejects their perspective and interpretation of the American past in the past century, they certainly draw one’s attention to consider re-evaluation of what are seen as standard beliefs about what happened, and who was responsible for the way America has evolved.
Their publication will likely be a best seller, and Showtime is offering ten one hour episodes on Tuesday nights at 8 PM EST, with the second week coming up this Tuesday.
This is a series and a book worth investigating!
STONE blows it yet again.
Having flubbed both his ‘W’ and 9/11 flicks, and
continuing to deliver his pointless, decades stale
doper ‘decadence’ —and even a celebration of
classic capstone empire ‘Alexander’ —-his
‘Untold History’ is no such thing.
He brings NOTHING new to the table and,
in standard capstone cover up fashion,
begins the survey 5 decades too late.
The Wallace angle has already been well covered.
Even beyond all that, the very treatment of
the material, such as it is, seems lame and half-baked
—and likewise his narration. And even further, we
couldn’t even spot any genuinely fresh archive footage.
This simply must be deliberate.
And so, in 2012, consider the figure —son of Wall Street,
former Yalie —once a soldier —and now AWOL and
even ‘on board’. . .