The World. A Family History: Around the globe in 1,300-plus crazed dynasties


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For Simon Sebag Montefiore 'not even the young die good. He revels in extracting from his sources all past libels and defamations of character.' The World. A Family History Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore ISBN-13 : 978-0297869672 Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Guideline Price : £35 The young Wittgenstein instructed us that “the world is all that is the case”. So, the world is quite big. One implication is that no author, of fiction or nonfiction, can successfully write about “all that is the case”, certainly not without questions that promise interesting answers. Differently put, if history is what the...