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Buck's near-worshipful love of Thornton and his complex emotional life — central to the nature-faker debate of 1903-1907.
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London's depiction of Buck's reasoning and emotional life sparked the famous "nature faker" controversy with John Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt, who attacked such portrayals as scientifically dishonest.
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Buck's strategic "imagination" in defeating Spitz was singled out as overreach by critics.
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