The biographies that the author chose are of people that have made our lives a misery and, even then, omit (as us usual) key matters.
The usual red flag for me is the biography of Henry VIII: the usual catalogue of his marriage events.
As always, historians such as this exclude the key event of his life: his legalisation of Usury in 1545: the first time that Usury in England was legally-allowed and which, in my preferred-definition of the term, that Capitalism was made legal.
With all the consequential catastrophes that have ensued.
In short: this is a politically-motivated hagiography of the worst sort.
I'm glad to have bought it, in order to be able to say so.
The usual red flag for me is the biography of Henry VIII: the usual catalogue of his marriage events.
As always, historians such as this exclude the key event of his life: his legalisation of Usury in 1545: the first time that Usury in England was legally-allowed and which, in my preferred-definition of the term, that Capitalism was made legal.
With all the consequential catastrophes that have ensued.
In short: this is a politically-motivated hagiography of the worst sort.
I'm glad to have bought it, in order to be able to say so.
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