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Title: The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times by Norman Cantor, Mindy Cantor ISBN: 0-06-092876-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Indigestible
Comment: The subject and scope is enticing, but this book demonstrates why the book industry must resuscitate editors. The authors' writing is wooden, repetitive and, finally, irritating. After 50 pages, it drove me to the comparative pleasures of a text on economics.

Rating: 3
Summary: readable but superficial
Comment: Today, New Year's Day 1999, I spent reading the first 170 pages or so of Cantor's book. Pages fly by; it is readable. But it is also superficial, sometimes factually wrong. At one point, the periodic table of elements is presented as an anachronism leftover from the Victorian age. Chemists today, he claims, would not recognize it. "... most chemists today would not even know the periodic table, nor would they have a use for it." (p. 19, paperback edition). That's sheer idiocy, as any practicing chemist would tell you. Inorganic chemistry is essentially the further development of the great periodic table.

My time today was not wasted - but beware.

Rating: 3
Summary: brilliant but disappointing book
Comment: in his attempt to be comprehensive,norman cantor's survey of twentieth century thought is often superficial. his history of the jews, "the sacred chain", was deeper, more intellectually stimulating and infuriating.

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