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Review title: A 700 page long superficial judgment of history in the US
Product review: I was only able to read 3-4 chaptes of this book.There are two main problems with the book. (1) The insights are not surprising, and (2) there is hardly any evidence of worthy research behind the opinions of the author.He often cites completely absurd sources to make a point, like a bumpersticker in 2000 or "one person writing in the Gazette in 1764". I am sure you can prove anything if you can argue with "one person once said".I was expecting from a book on the "history of the people" to trully investigate how "the people" have felt and lived history in this country. What you get, instead, is how the author's modern western and quite leftish view of things perceives history in hindsight. Quite a different thing.The book doesn't read like the work of an academic, but rather, like an angry ultra-left superficial view of the world. The kind of writing one finds in free weekly newspapers like "Citypaper". At least those editorials have humor!
