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Review title: Future historians will find it worthless.
Product review: If this book was intended to be a summary of news stories, embellished by anecdotal information, then the authors' objectives have been met.If, however, the authors were hoping to memorialize events which, at the end of the next century, left an imprint on our nation and the world, then they missed the boat.The impact of surging human populations, and the complications resulting from migration, have been the story of our century. But it never became the story for Jennings' The Century. Future historians in the next 100 years will look back on demographics and migration as having a profound impact on our culture, civilization, freedoms and body of laws.Migration was mentioned for the 1920s. Thereafter, the issue vanished from the book. But it has not vanished for the rest of us.It is lamentable that a 606 page work on The Century would overlook these factors.
