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History

Book Review

Title: What Is History?
Author: Edward Hallett Carr
Publisher: Vintage Books, 1961

History can never be seen in the same light again for this book has upset my long entrenched notion that history is but an incontrovertible chronology of facts and causes. If not facts and causes, what is history then? This book review examines.

Tuesday, December 9, 2003




Book Review

Title: Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996.

No thinker had a more profound and direct effect on mankind in the Twentieth century than Karl Marx whose philosophy "Marxism" gave rise to Communism, a socio-political system which once governed nearly half of the world's population. To understand the appeal of "Marxism", it is essential to know about the man: his life, thoughts and his times. Isaiah Berlin's "Karl Marx" did just that. This review has the details.

Saturday, July 19, 2003


Book Review

Title: Hitler's Banker
Author: Weitz, John
Publisher: Warner Books, 1999. Great Britain

Schacht, the renowed the financial genius, who single-handedly saved Germany from runaway inflation after the post war period of World War I as well as rehabilitated Germany's rearmament during Hitler's reign was far from retiring of the world stage. In the post war period following the Nuremberg's Trial, despite his infamous reputation as Hitler's banker and at retirement age of seventies, he was still one of the most sought-after financial gurus in the world.

Who was he? What had he done which earned him his international fame as a financial genius? This book review examines.


July, 2002



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