Check out the first reveiw here. And, yes, I apologize for sending you to look at anything by Pat Buchanan.
This person needs to buy some history books from Amazon, instead of wasting his money of right wing tripe from the likes of P.B. Seriously, only England underwent the Enlightenment?!? Leaving off that he appears here to be confusing England with the UK (or perhaps he thinks Scotland isn't "Western" enough), what about France's role in the Enlightenment? Or has Francophobia within the wacko right in this country gone so far as to hate even French people who lived and died hundreds of years ago?
Oh, and I hate the historical perspective he has which renders Islam as barbarian. I know people love to hate algebra, but c'mon, Europe owes its mathematical advances to earlier Muslim scholars.
It's always these wackos on the right wing who complain most stridently about revisionist history who revise history for their own aggrandize the most.
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No clue about the book, but that's quite a "funny" (uhm I mean sad) statement indeed. Esp. if you consider the great thinkers of so many other nations, the impact they all had on one and other, etc. Revisionist history has unfortunatly always been popular however :S
Wow - and I thought only Buddha reached enlightenment...
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