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Title: Without pace or spark
Review: First, a confession: I started skimming around page 30 and gave up altogether around page 70.The book addresses a fascinating subject, but the writing is maddeningly repetitive. It is almost without the shaping and telling detail that makes history meaningful.Productive reflection on what is important and why is almost absent.If I had counted how many times the author asserts that no one has ever treated the topic adequately before, you would not believe the number.In summary, I'm prepared to believe there is useful information hidden in there somewhere; I'm just not prepared to waste any more time trying to find it.(I have given it two stars (rather than one) because a historian might find the references useful.)
