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From: Harper's Magazine | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Leonard, John | Copyright information

I am at a loss as to how best to invite you into Don Akenson's "micro-Talmud of humankind," AN IRISH HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION (McGill-Queen's University Press, two volumes, $39.95 each), where you will be tickled and lashed all the way from the stone-age god-kings of Knowth, circa 3000 B.C., to Billy Graham at a Nixon White House prayer breakfast. Yes, the emphasis in these 1,500 splendid pages is on Christianity and imperialism; on contingency and identity. But there are many jokes...

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