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Title: Not really for laypeople
Review: The thematic as opposed to chronological presentation makes this book of limited interest to a layperson. The average reader is probably not that interested in an entire chapter on whether Alexander thought he was a God or not.There is a tendency towards redundancy in the language used within each sentence and redundancy in the arguments used, which impedes the flow of the reading. I have a feeling the publisher asked for a larger book, and this was the result.I would have preferred deeper, even if speculative, discussion about Alexander's psychological makeup.You know a book is probably in trouble when 80% of the back-cover blurbs are about a previous book of the author's, and the one blurb about this book is from a fellow historian instead of an independent entity.
