The Story of Mankind (Paperback)

from flyingmonkey5

If I may riff from Lady Caroline Lamb, this book is mad, bad and dangerous to read. I wouldn't have bothered to finish, but I working on all of the Newberys so I suffered through. This is terrible history. Biased, racist, Euro-centric and paternalistic; I would hate to think that someone would re...

from debnance

I saved the worst for last. My final Newbery and what a struggle it was to get through it! This is the story of the history of the world through the ages, written for a young audience. It is said to have been amended and updated and added to, but, if that is so, I can only shudder to think of the...

from gmillar

A history book for young people. Mr. Van Loon's illustrations are just delightful.

from mirrani

The title of this book is both correct and incorrect at the same time. While there is much talk in the beginning about how man came to be, the author chose to ignore all but Europeans for the most part because, in his opinion, they did the most notable things in history. The important thing to re...

from tjsjohanna

I have to object to the title of this book - this is not the history of mankind. This is the history of western europeans. There's nothing about china, japan, india, phillipines - nothing in asia at all. Secondly this is a story, not really history. Mr. Van Loon presents as facts all kinds of thi...