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179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

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Cristopher Hitchins and the Kissinter Book

The kissinter book, i just the premise of it that he's a war criminal. Youno givein the kinds of things the the united states was doing through the c i a sa and south american countries to support fascious dictators over communist dictators. Well, cristopher hitchins was a friend a somebody whose company i always enjoyed. The cissenger book was not his strongest effort it's not at all well researched, apart from anything else. So it kind of falls down as history. And it suffers also from what i'll call historical grade inflation.

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