I guess our responses to it are subjective, too, but I still feel that it is revisionistic in some ways - an international focus I can deal with, but it is UK-centric. He centralises the UK and marginalises America and he demonstrates a profound lack of empathy for his subjects, mocking them rather than trying to see things from their vantage point. I have major ideological problems with his book on many levels but I think he is a fine writer and there are parts of it I may agree with. Just my 2 cents.
>I've read the Reynolds and to use the term Revisionism, i think, is a little >strong. Perhaps the focus isn't on Detroit/Chicago exclusively but that >doesn't make it a revisionist text just more of a UK bias. It is subjective >journalism after all, which he makes clear.
