M&D background - book review

[Doug Millison]

"[...] At a small gathering a few months ago at Queen
Anne's hushed private supper club the Ruins,
sceenwriter and novelist Paul Lussier tipped his hat
to the house chef, who also happens to be his sister.
Lussier was celebrating the publication of his first
novel. The sister, Chef Michele Lussier, proudly
looked on as her brother made a fascinating, impromptu
speech about how the true American Revolution of the
1770s was carried out not by our Founding Fathers but
by cross-dressers, queers, and whores. [...] According
to Lussier, the imagery we Americans keep in our
collective heads--of wise, freedom-seeking Colonial
leaders Franklin, Hancock, et al.--is sheer myth, or
only part of the story at best. Instead, he points
out, the Declaration of Independence gang really
consisted of a few wealthy men out to protect their
financial interests. [...] Once you blow the dust off
the War of Independence and see the truly
revolutionary impulses of the people who fought, you
learn our country owes its freedom to a rebellious
spirit that was written out of history." 


from a review of 
The Last Refuge of Scoundrels
by Paul Lussier
(Warner), $26.95 

http://www.thestranger.com/current/books.html

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