A review by happinessisalltherage
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan

3.0

Read in a week for a graduate class on History and its uses in international affairs, this is a fine book full of real world examples on that subject. I enjoyed the last chapter the most. I found a couple of MacMillan's comments requiring a citation or to be rather simple generalizations of complex historical topics. For example, she claims the Soviet policy of glasnot led to a loss of faith in the Soviet project and to it's disunion. I'm no Soviet scholar but that seems quite simplistic.

A quick, breezy read, but not an essential one.