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Title: Mediocre popular history
Review: For a more accurate account of Ghengis Khan there are any number of more scholarly works. Amongst this books problems is that it ignores most of the vast number of independant, contemporary Asian critiques of Ghengis Khan and the Mongols as murderers of millions. Various books, such as The Mongols by David Morgan, have translations of contemporary Persian, Chinese and Arab sources which paint a much different picture than Weatherford does. This diverse set of critical accounts, with authors representing many different religious, social and economic groups, presents a challenge to any favorable account of Ghengis Khan, a challenge Weatherford doesn't meet. He provides no real basis for dismissing these many independantly written accounts. He doesn't even indicate, unlike every single other Mongolian history I have ever read, how common and universal such accounts were.
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