{"id":11115,"date":"2012-03-24T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2012-03-22T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:57:02","slug":"book-report-the-lowbrow-guide-to-world-history-by-michael-powell-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/book-report-the-lowbrow-guide-to-world-history-by-michael-powell-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Lowbrow Guide to World History<\/i> by Michael Powell (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0760762775\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0760762775\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thelowbrowguidetoworldhistory.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>I did not care for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0760762775\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0760762775\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a short but of small, blog-sized pieces about different historical topics.  Some are round-ups of topics, like the history of toilet paper and codpieces.  Some are more focused, such as the chapter on who would win in an arm-wrestling contest between Atilla the Hun and Ghengis Khan or which of Henry VIII&#8217;s wives was most bedable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit snarky, and I&#8217;ve determined that if you&#8217;re not in on the snark, you&#8217;re not going to enjoy it.  The author looks down on a lot of his subject matter (&#8220;Where the Conquistadors Stupid Or What?&#8221; and &#8220;Could Christopher Columbus Navigate His Way out of a Paper Bag?&#8221; and so on).<\/p>\n<p>I guess the title should have given the game away, but do I listen?  No.<\/p>\n<p>Skip this one and read a real history book instead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0760762775&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not care for this book. It&#8217;s a short but of small, blog-sized pieces about different historical topics. Some are round-ups of topics, like the history of toilet paper and codpieces. Some are more focused, such as the chapter on who would win in an arm-wrestling contest between Atilla the Hun and Ghengis Khan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}