Anchor: Still, it is the rare author who can re-create, with so much passion and exactness, aspects of our history that most Americans would just as soon forget.
Entailed: It takes a special writer to capture American history.
Contradiction: ANyone can write brilliant prose about history.
Contradiction: All six of the top ranking players in America skipped higher education.
Contradiction: The mountain was carved into a god shape.
Contradiction: It is important to always have the newest things. 
Contradiction: D'Onofrio believed methodological issues have value.