Killer book review sentences

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Monday, April 27, 2009 - 3:53 AM Share

In the category of "book reviews that would fit on Twitter," we have this sentence from Louise Richardson's New York Times Book Review of Michael Burleigh's Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism:

To appreciate the virtues of this book (it is, in its way, an exceptional synthesis), one has to make a conscious and concerted effort...

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TGGP

1:15 AM ET

April 29, 2009

That does sound like Burleigh

On the recommendation of Mencius Moldbug I read Burleigh's Earthly Powers. I liked it enough that I read the second volume, Sacred Causes. He had become far more insufferable in the latter.