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# The Cunning of History

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    Styron's tedious, tendentious and in the end ineffective attempt to ...
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2015*

I am using this book, interestingly enough, for a seminary course on God. I have read it multiple times since i read it first in 1983 as an undergraduate at Morehouse College doing the "final solution" for one semester of my honors course. I re-read the book while completing my PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago, on the Tragic in God and Human Experience. I give this book four stars instead of five only because of William Styron's belabored effort to "be missed by" or rather duck the point of Rubenstein's critique of the virus that remains at the heart of American culture. Once again the twists and turns to avoid the diabolical reality and ongoing horror of American racism proves we remain vulnerable to viral attack. Styron's tedious, tendentious and in the end ineffective attempt  to "take the edge" off the implications of Rubenstein's diagnosis and preserve safe space for cherished racist presuppositions against African American's and for white supremacy is beneath the dignity of this book. It is proof of how truly insidious the virus remains.

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    A little book on history that will really make you think.
  

*by K***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2002*

This is only a small book (less than 100 pages), but it packs a lot of ideas into it's content.This is an "objective" view of the 20th century trend towards mass murder, and the forces described in this book, while based in a european context can be seen to hold true for virtually all "modern" societies, including Asia and Africa.The author explains the link between a well organised bureaucratic organisation with an objective view to "processing" people through their rules.  The danger of having large groups of "displaced" and "no-nation" peoples combined with a tendancy to rationlise away those peoples "rights" in society - to make them effectivley "non-people" and outside the law.  It also brings home the reality that power *does* corrupt - or at least finds excuses for all it does to other people.The author has presented us with a possible bleak future in many ways.  This book is also a mirror to how we justify the choices of our modern life and the picture is not always pretty.In the past, where "jews" may have been the target, today discrimination is trending towards the poor, and once again with the displaced and dispossed.  Read in conjunction with "no Logo", this book is very enlightening - though out of the 2 books this is the better written.  Worth picking up, reading and keeping.

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    Well argued and intelligent
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2004*

In this essay Richard Rubenstein contends that the Holocaust should be viewed within the context of a tradition of slavery that is deep rooted in western culture. Drawing on Max Weber, Rubenstein argues that the combination of unrestricted capitalism and protestantism helped to create the conditions necessary for the ultimate form of slavery as expressed in the Nazi death camps. Additional factors include a European trend toward viewing certain segments of a given population as expendable.The analysis is thought provoking and intelligently written. My reservation is that while I agree that viewing the holocaust in this way leads one to the conclusion that under the right circumstances genocide on this scale could happen again , I also believe that there was something uniquely evil in the Nazi leadership that contributed to the Holocaust. Rubenstein's analysis focused on historical/economic/social forces at the expense of the personal responsibilty of Hitler and his inner circle. Despite that this is an important book that should be mandatory reading in any study of the Holocaust.

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