Bete noire department for me includes
the multi-volume Churchill History of
WWII (well-written, but overblown and
with some "patriotically interesting"
comments and slants on the Soviet
contribution to the Allied effort) and
that horse's ass Toynbee's my-religion-although-one-of-many-is-
nonetheless-the-Only Way-and-the-
true key-to-historical-and-cultural-
progress histories. And to think I read
most of them as an impressinable
teenager. (Would have spent my time
more profitably improving social skills
such as playing honkytonk piano in a
sportin house....)
--Dave Conford