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Title: Everyone else is right, I think ...
Review: Anthony Levi is trying to be fair to the Cardinal, whose reputation has endured hundreds of years of mudslinging. But Levi can't write well (perhaps English isn't his first language?) and nobody edited him well. I've read far worse, so I was eventually able to break through the poor sentence structure and dig out the meaning, but not everyone wants to do that. someone else mentioned that Levi has a hard time placing the Thirty Years War; I have to agree -- I wouldn't know when it was held based on Levi's writing alone. I borrowed it from a public library, and I'm glad -- I certainly wouldn't spend $77 on this book! It's just not worth it. If you can't find it in your local library, and you need it for some reason, get the paperback. You won't be reading this over and over and over for fun.
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