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Title: Oversimplified at best - on the edge of "naive" propaganda
Review: This book seems to have been written from a safe distance; maybe from the barcony of a five star hotel. It's oversimplified at best, although I have to say it does make a good attempt to describe the people of Turkey.It's only when talking about the goverment and politics where Mr. Kinzer fails us. He fails to mention HOW a coutry with the most genocides in recent memory, and a military that runs things can be a true democracy. Conviniently skipping the genocides of Greeks, Armenians and Kurds jumping from the present to an ancient past that in no way connects to the current inhabitants in the area (who came from central Asia and in no way are associated with the history sang by Homer in the Iliad), he would have us think that history can be re-written.History can help explain the present, because history shapes the present.Very dissapointing.Maybe Mr. Kinzer can make another attempt after he studies the history of the region.
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