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Review title: The editorial review is completely right.
Product review: I was disgusted by the poor scholarship in this book. White quotes at will from primary documents and fellow historians without a single citation to show where he got his information. White is also guilty of broad overgeneralizations that are poorly supported. For example, the section on Victorian America includes a paragraph that claims that "a healthy society could not survive without the control of instincts" (p 4). White then quotes from an Irish "orator and parliamentarian, Edmund Burke." No Amerian sources are cited, leaving the reader to assume that what is true in Ireland at that time must also be true in America -- a blurred and unprofessional perspective. This book wasted my time.
