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Title: An Utter Disappointment
Review: You would think that such a renowned historian could write a book without so many errors in detail. Sorry, Mr. Starr, to travel the Pacific Ocean from the Phillipines to California, one heads east, not west. Unfortunately, this book is about what is to be expected from today's academic elite. He can't stop with the oppression & enslavement of the Native Americans, Chinese, Blacks, etc. by the European Americans with biological genocide etc. The "environmental catastrophe" of the Hetch Hetchy and Owens River water projects is yet another popular comtemporary theme. Yet I wonder if Mr. Starr even considers where that water comes from when he opens a tap at USC? Heaven forbid that he would address these as the engineering marvels of their day that are still in use today. This book is not history, it is retrospective social comentary from the elitest perspective. I got 3/4 of the way through and threw it away.
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