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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu
It certainly seems that the author is declaring his bias and opinion. Why is my acknowledgement of his bias less important than his stating it?
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Here's the deal. From an academic's POV, the value of any work of history is the extent to which it
advances the historiographical debate over the subject at hand. While it is your prerogative to read the way you want, I'm suggesting that by allowing yourself to get distracted by a historian's "bias", you are undercutting your ability to grapple with a SME's book on its own terms.