Tedious, yes; indicative of the entire historical profession with a few exceptions, yes; but he writes well and if I had to read something like that, I can wade through Zinn.
I felt that way through just about every book/article in grad school. My all-time least favorite (and it was assigned as somewhat of a joke by Mark Smith): “Slave Hair and African-American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” by White and White. I thought my eyeballs would bleed.
I had neither a check nor a gun to my head. That is what made it worse.
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