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Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
By Olsson, Tore C.
- ISBN
- 9781250287700
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Starred Review on July 1, 2024 | Social Sciences
During the peak of the COVID lockdown, Olsson (history, Univ. of Tennessee; Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside) felt an urge to return to the digital realm of historical video games. Red Dead Redemption II was his choice. Set in a fictionalized West of 1899, it featured a bunch of idealist bandits under Arthur Morgan, a lieutenant in Dutch Van der Linde's gang. Morgan's henchmen ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
