Even the lion of musical theater composers, Richard Rodgers, comes in for some withering revisionism.

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When there's no happily ever after, revisionism can really set in.

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Schoolchildren learn little about Amin, and revisionism is rife.

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Another example of historical revisionism, progressive-style, involves Herbert Hoover.

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The Parsons show, conceived and carried out by Christopher Mount, director of exhibitions and public programs, is an evocative exercise in nostalgia and revisionism, with a bit of affectionate proselytizing thrown in.

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New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.

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By all accounts, Friedan was not a person inclined to share the credit. (Some men have been known to be this way as well.) The implication that she had diagnosed a condition no one else had even managed to identify that the problem she wrote about had no name until she named it was a pretty open invitation to revisionism.

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