The Library of Virginia’s 2014 People’s Choice Award for non-fiction has gone to a book that is probably the biggest literary hoax since Clifford Irving’s bogus “Autobiography of Howard Hughes” more than forty years ago.
This is the first in a series of posts I will make which will prove conclusively—by the record—that Dean King’s “The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story” is one of the biggest collections of falsehood ever sold as non-fiction.
If I covered all of King’s distortions of the record and outright lies, this series would be longer than King’s four hundred thirty page book; therefore, I will cover only a dozen or so of the most egregious examples of the perfidy of this “historian.”
This story can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://tinyurl.com/ycqlg3oy