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I read this book, and personally disliked it whole heartedly. I think it completely missinterprets history. Published in 1980, this book has been the essential guide for the perception given in most history text books(at least those used by public schools). I was wondering what might society be like now if either this book was never written, or never published? would there be any signifficant effect, or would someone else come along and write essentially the same thing?
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