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Historian GAVIN MCLEAN, whose new book, Wellington: The First Years Of Settlement is reviewed today, has been chortling his way through a book about American historical sites: "It's called Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, by James W Loewen. I got it from the States. It's a wonderful tour through 95 historic sites, monuments and plaques, all of which - with the exception of one - he tears apart in great style. The monuments are in the wrong places, they have the wrong people or the wrong stories. The only one that's right is a house site in Maine, which says `On this site in 1897 nothing of importance happened.' And I've just finished Edmund White's new novel, The Married Man, which I thought was wonderful. It's a continuation of his previous book in many ways."