Siegel: review of M&D

[jbor]

A brief review that might not have been read or noted before:

'Mason & Dixon' by Mark Siegel. 
_Journal of Popular Culture_ 31.4. Bowling Green: Spring 1998, pp. 176-7.

Excerpt:

    [...] The most heroic moment is not the completion of the Line
    or its abandonment; it is Dixon, returning from his failed
    mission, striking down a slave trader: "Dixon chose to act,...
    [to do] what each of us wishes he might have the unthinking
    Grace to do, yet fails to do. To act for all those of us who
    have so failed" (698). [...]

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