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    "text": "Felipe Fernández-Armesto can be relied upon for insight, entertainment and blistering criticism in his reviews (often, as here, more like primers on big subjects); but his piece on Greg Grandin’s ‘America, America: a new history of the new world’ in this week’s @thetls.bsky.social is quite something",
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          "alt": "A sample paragraph from towards the end of  the review:\n\nI opened the book expecting instruction and entertainment. I closed it in despair. How can such a shoddy piece, so self-indulgent, so partisan, so ignorant, so poorly written and so carelessly checked, appear over the name of a well-qualified professor and the imprint of a respected publisher?\nHistorical writing in the US academy seems to be in regression. Ranke seems to have been forgotten.\nInstead of writing history wie es eigentlich gewesen ist, or trying to sympathize with or understand dead white males of currently unfashionable opinions, academics can achieve renown and win prizes by traducing the past, inflicting sententious value judgements on their readers and plucking at motes in dead men's eyes, while ignoring the beams in their own. Grandin is entitled to detest imperialism and plutocracy, but not to misrepresent his uninformed denunciations as history. We should be wary of wallowing in self-righteous judgements of the past: they will be visited on us in our turn.",
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