Title: Can a writer string a line of arbitrary facts together . . .
Review: and call the result "history"? I think not. It would be just as easy to pick any other set of disconnected facts, string them together with another line of guesswork, and call the result "history", as well.Nevertheless, I am now less annoyed by this book with the recognition that the "facts" could well be fiction. After all, in just three pages of text (pages 45-47) there are five errors of fact.Am I permitted to doubt the veracity of other "facts"--that the fate of European succession was dependent upon the invention of the stirrup,--that the feudal system was the result of three-field crop rotation?The "gee-whiz" factor may work for the escapism of television but as a book, Connections fails to connect.
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