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Review title: Unless you're a Harvard History graduate don't bother.
Product review: This highly regarded book has to be the biggest let down I've read in 10 years. The prose is mind numbingly dull and over intricate and you're left with the feeling that Schama wrote it to impress his Columbia University collegues with his oh-so brilliant depth of knowledge. The books biggest fault is Schama's unwillingness to dare to condescend and explain anything, he just takes for granted that you understand the doctrines of Voltaire and Rousseau and other notable people and institutions, and has the annoying habbit of breaking into French phrase without giving any translation. This book with its intricacies could be quite usefull to someone with an already deep knowledge of the subject, albeit being a revisionist piece, but to the person with a casual interest its just a big fat, expensive waste of paper.JD
