Title: A disappointment
Product review: I read about this book in the Chronicle of Higher Education and was eager to read it. My anticipation unfortunately made the letdown all the worse.While there is interesting information in the book, I finished it without any clear sense for Cantor's argument; that is, I wasn't sure what his point was. The book seemed more a cobbled-together pile of information than a coherent story.Anyone treading this path has a hard act to follow; Tuchman's A Distant Mirror is still the supreme popular work on the period. I had hoped Cantor would at least come close; to my disappointment, he did not.
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