Title: Spent too much time in the newsroom
Product review: Perhaps Paul Hoffman has spent too much time in newsrooms... After all, newscasters' job is to unearth the seedy, the awful, the criminal, the negative. And that's precisely what you'll read in this book. Hoffman offers a mind-numbing slew of negative stereotypes (as thoroughly researched as they may be, one could also provide dozens of anecdotes to support prejudices against the Irish, Jewish peoples, Africans, Swedes...). In this book, Hoffman tries to explain EVERY reason for EVERY problem Italy has EVER experienced--from littering and crotch-scratching to poor governmental structure to tax evasion. It's as one-sided a book as any of those awful "I bought the most beautiful house in Tuscany and had the most beautiful time with the most beautiful people" travelogues... just replace the word "beautfiul" with "bad."
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