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Hollywood once treated history as "harmless gadzookery" or "devotional claptrap," without saying it was educating the young.
Perhaps Duncker wishes to avoid the pitfalls of what one historical novelist has called gadzookery - the stumbling about of characters uttering quaint tidbits in a painted environment - but in doing so she has fallen into a pitfall of the opposite sort: a character who sounds like a refugee from the sitcom next door.
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