The first part of the book was fascinating, as it provided information of the ideology, settlement, and customs of each nation. That part was an interesting read. I was leaning toward giving this a 4-star rating until I hit about Chapter 24. At this point, the author loses all objectivity and shows his clear northeastern bias against the south. His generalizations about the south aren’t based on any objective data, but on personal prejudices from his perspective. There are a good number of downright incorrect statements that were derogatory toward the southern part of the country, which were really disappointing.
Some of his “historical” conclusions were very inaccurate as well. In chapter 26, he implies that the Nazis adopted their prejudicial attitude toward the black population from the Deep South. The fact of the matter is that Hitler’s philosophy was driven and constructed from Darwin (the idea of the survival of the fittest), and Nietzsche’s ideas of the “superman”, “super race”. Those were the drivers of what begat the Holocaust.
Also mentioned were snide comments about evangelical Christianity. The implications in the latter chapters were that evangelicals wanted a “Christian theocracy”, or evangelical “sharia law”. It is obvious that he really doesn’t understand evangelical population at all and would be well served to learn and understand who that segment of the population is.
Again, the last part of the book forced me to give this a one-star rating. I’d love to see the author do more objective research and redo that last part of the book.
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