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03/17/2008 Archived Entry: "Book Review Of Adam Pollack’s ‘in The Ring With Bob Fitzsimmons’"
Book Review Of Adam Pollack’s ‘in The Ring With Bob Fitzsimmons’
By Adeyinka Makinde
Courtesy of eastsideboxing.com
The task of the historian, most would agree, is to transmit the information collected about the past to the present; in the process utilising the maximum range of tools and resources in gathering the sources that will form the basis of his finished work. Most would also tend to agree that the selection of material be done in an objective and unbiased fashion. However, what is less easy to agree upon are the sources on which the historian relies.
For instance, what level of weight and probative value is one to give to those sources which are in conflict and in contradiction to each other? To what extent must the historian rely on the recollections of the primary participants in the ultimate quest for that elusive and indefinable quality referred to as ‘truth’? What is fact and what is merely the interpretation of fact or opinion? There is an arguable tendency for historians, even those who are tackling a subject matter afresh, to base their research on well-trodden paths of source material leaving out other avenues through which fresh undiscovered evidence can be unearthed.
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