"History is a continuity of events derived of the developing social and economic conditions of mankind. If there are those, who, for self-serving reasons, tamper with it so that a fact becomes its opposite, and the whole course of a quite positive struggle for progress is channeled into the blind alleys of sophistry and infantile polemics..." Arthur H. Landis.
This line alone should encourage anyone to track this book down and read it. The Unfinished Revolution is a triumph of historiographic scholarship.