Reviews for World History,v.i-text Only

The average rating for World History,v.i-text Only based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-18 00:00:00 Steven Lucas I don't usually like surveys of history, but Boorstin still does a good job of describing hundreds of artists, scientists and dreamers that formed the western conscience. It is a long book but as each chapter is just a handful of pages, it is not difficult to read. You could read this as a sort of introduction and then choose various people and then go off and research biographies of them independently as I did. In any case, it is readable and interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-06 00:00:00 Tashia Barnes I won this book as a prize in my History of Psychology class in college. We had to come to class dressed as one of the psychological figures we'd learned about that semester. Most came as Freud or Erikson, with a few Skinners thrown in. I came as Phinneus Gage, a mild-mannered railroad worker from Vermont who got stabbed in the head with a tamping iron and lived, but became such an asshole no one wanted to be around him anymore, thus giving researchers insight into the goings on of the temporal lobe. I came to class in bloodied railroad-striped overalls and fashioned a tamping iron out of cardboard that I affixed to my head. I started yelling at everyone in my class, using a plethora of dirty words in my best Vermont accent. I won. Hands down. But I still haven't read this book...