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Review title: A well-balanced survey
Product review: I started reading this book with some reluctance. In general,I find Schama (both as an author and lecturer -- I sat in on oneof his courses 20 years ago) to be so fond of supposedly illuminating anecdotes that the flow of the history he discusses gets lost.However, in this book it works. The history is vivid -- hisportrayal of James I, Charles I, Cromwell, Charles II and JamesII are rich -- and the anecdotes work to illuminate theircharacter.
