id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vhzkiz7aqba7nnaziiksxfd4fy H. Schuman Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain? 2005 29 .pdf application/pdf 13369 1072 61 It is also clear that attempts at the time of the 1992 Quincentenary to reinvigorate the traditional heroic view of Columbus were unsuccessful, as recounted in detail by two knowledgeable observers in the book Furthermore, even for the small number of Americans who reject the longstanding positive image of Columbus as "the discoverer of America," it 5. Villainous Columbus: Finally, there were responses that not only recognized the priority of the American Indians, but that also portrayed gave Heroic responses; at the other extreme, fewer than 4 percent characterized Columbus in the Villainous terms advanced by revisionist writers and direction of Heroic responses (now 12 percent of the total); the main revisionist category of Villainous Columbus increased to 8 percent; and the Indians within American culture, the oldest respondents in our sample should continue to express a more heroic view of Columbus that they had absorbed ./cache/work_vhzkiz7aqba7nnaziiksxfd4fy.pdf ./txt/work_vhzkiz7aqba7nnaziiksxfd4fy.txt