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To Govern A Nation of Hawkeyes
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19921008
Author:George F. Will
If you crave relief from the tedium of 1992, spend a few hours in 1757. The new movie made of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" is not restful, but it is a bracing immersion in some great American themes, and in the company of a mythic figure who flits soundlessly across the forest floor of our national dreams.
The movie made from Cooper's remarkably cinematic novel (it is all pursuit and rescue, with the rustle of gingham skirts in the wilderness) illuminates today's politics. It illustrates a tension - think of it as the call of the forest against the claims of ...
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