Title: Barely readable
Product review: I took the Pulitzer jury's word for this one, which was a big mistake. Another reviewer said this book was 'superbly written' and I am wondering if we read the same book. I found it barely readable. Awkward sentence structure, repetition ad nauseum, at least one contradiction (was Hirohito intelligent or not?), and no sense of flow in the material presented. It appears to have had no editor. It's the kind of stuff that one sees in academic journals where unintelligibility is a mark of genius.
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