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Review title: Politically-correct lock-step nonsense
Product review: This hyper-politically-correct tome will win the affection of academia, with their hatred of power (real or perceived) and hostility toward the very idea of dispassionate truth. It's not that the author makes no good points -- indeed, many of his points are extremely well-taken -- it's that his agenda is so open, his axe-grinding so blatant, that unless you've already researched the histories in-depth, you just don't know which parts of his analysis to trust and which to discard as leftist hyperbole and fiction. In fact, the best thing I can say about this book is that the author made little attempt to hide his very pronounced sociopolitical biases.My advice: Ignore the book. There are many books examining the mind-boggling distortions of "history" -- distortions as gladly perpetrated by the political left as the right -- which still manage to avoid the strident anti-establishment tone and vomitous academic pandering that Loewen glories in.
