Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class Book

Dry, flat, and poorly written, even for a textbook. I love history, and the early modern period in particular, so it's not like I wasn't interested in the material. It's just that Merriman is a bad writer. His sentences are all short and they all end abruptly, an effect that makes reading this book like riding a cart over a dirt road, jolting from one dip in the road to another. Furthermore, I was constantly at a loss to understand his connections between ideas, even within the same paragraph. It's like he forgot what the previous sentence was when he wrote the next one. Finally, he seems to have filed down his vocabulary until he reached a level that even very young readers would find comfortable. This makes it hard to focus on his argument, and it also seems somewhat condescending. Ultimately, I found this book to be unreadable - unfortunate not only because I spent $20 on it, but because I wanted to learn some history.