I appreciated the loose format of small essays, and would love to see that more often in non-fiction. This allowed Brunner to draw from a wide variety of sources, and span thousands of years of history. However, there just wasn’t a center of gravity to the project.

Nazism cast a shadow over most of the book, and i was impressed by the author’s clear-headed approach to threading the history of Aryan supremacy throughout the book while tackling its evil head-on.