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If I told you I was a Civil War buff, you'd probably be surprised to discover I couldn't name more than two or three important commanders in the war and I am only familiar with the Battle of Gettysburg. OK, so it's not that bad. But I have to admit I enjoy reading about history more than I enjoy studying it. That's probably true of a lot of people. Yet there is a growing demand for historical fiction dating back to Alex Haley's "Roots" series and the popular historical fiction that followed covering the Revolutionary War, World War II and a host of other historical events and characters. I recently finished David McCullough's "John Adams", a book that could be considered documentary history. McCullough's work was so detailed and expressive, coming from source documents, diaries and letters of the period, that it lent itself to being produced as a seven part series on HBO.
