Revisionist interpretation: flawed but interesting

Review of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

This is an odd book.  On the one hand, it is supposed to be a kind of narrative based on new source materials, an intimate biography – an interesting story, with quirky personal details, the ascription of emotion at crucial moments, and some (surprisingly poor) evocative language. On the other hand, as an anthropologist and scientist but clearly not an …