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Title: Folklore, Not History
Review: Reading this book is like having to endure your poker buddy's loquacious Las Vegas monologues every Thursday night in a friend's basement recreation room. That is, lots of titilating factoids interspersed with inappropriate ethnic stereotypes and slurs. An impressionable reader could easily come away from this book thinking all Italians are in the Mafia and are out to get you. The author's own apparent ethnicity is no license for this sort of cheesy, dated innuendo.And where was the editor? As mentioned elsewhere in these reviews, there is only the loosest continuity with characters being introduced and then re-introduced over and over again in subsequent chapters. Mr. Fischer plays fast and loose with the facts and the book should be read as a compilation of annecdotes rather than as a serious history.
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