I disagree. On one side, you have an opinion piece within one market (albeit a pretty large market). On the other, you have a non-fiction book that was meant to be based on research and facts reaching a national market and winning the Pulitzer Prize. I’m much more willing to discount someone’s misguided opinion than…

Sure, but also Fink’s Pulitzer-winning book is the history that will be remembered. It’s erasure, and if you already feel like your town and culture is being erased, I get it, especially from a writer’s perspective (and in the context of this piece). To quote Hamilton, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” This…