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The Willing Misinterpreter

A review of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, is presented. The book's goal is to reconceptualize, understand, interpret differently, explain adequately, and propose workable responses to the catastrophic and systematic problem...

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Published in:National Interest no. 104; pp. 87 - 97
Main Author: Rieff, David
Format: Book Review
Published: Center for the National Interest November/December 2009
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