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Sunday, February 09, 2003

While I'm on the subject of Ebooks.com, I'm starting to wonder whether the site has some political bent of its own. I saw this in the description of Communism: A History: "There is no more dramatic story in modern history, nor one more crucial to master, than that of how the writing and agitation of two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers named Marx and Engels led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated." This is a very loaded description, and I'm left wondering whether the book will give me an objective history lesson, or whether it's a long editorial about how evil the Communists really were. What ever happened to history as objective reflection and analysis of past events? The Ebooks.com description sounds like it could have been written by the Young Republicans for Nixon.

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