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Title: Personal, Even Quirky, but Worthwhile Reading
Review: John Lukacs writes in a clear, elegant style and he has the charmingly old fashioned habit of censoring four-letter profanity when others are directly quoted. As this is a subject exhaustively covered, researched and analyzed for over sixty years it is unrealistic to expect many new facts here. New insights may arise even generations later, however and this slim volume has enough to make the reader stop frequently to ponder and say "Now, why didn't I think of that?" or take issue. Prof. Lukacs' fresh look at the term "isolationism" is by itself worth the priceAs to taking issue, Prof. Lukacs is not shy about criticizing the work of other historians or biographers--even quite eminent ones and even in a cranky tone. He is a one-man school of historiography, neither right-wing nor left, European oriented or wholly American, ideological nor determinist.This book is valuable.
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