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Title: Don't be fooled by the engaging literary style of this book
Review: This is not a work of history, it is a polemical tract pushing a conservative, Euro-American centered, exclusionist political agenda. The "facts" are often wrong, and the conclusions frequently absurd. The most blatant example of this is the representation of leaders of the post-WWII Third-World liberation movements as being little more than thugs. Anyone wishing to read a worthwhile history of the twentieth-century should consult Hobsbawm's recent AGE of EXTREMES.
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