[submarinerswife]

I love reading about ancient history even some of the fictional books that are rich with historical fact but I try to steer clear of blatant agendas of the authors.

Tina Brown and MoDowd are drooling over this book, the first red flag

But this line in the review clinched it for me: Schiff gives us her version of the Queen

I will skip this one.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I made a point of underlying the buzz-names, such as James Cameron. I mean, this book has too many leftist dingleberries dangling off of it to be worth much of anything. And it’s not as if attempts to rehabilitate the poor misunderstood inbred mass-murderess floozy haven’t been made before. Michael Grant makes an ass out of himself defending her by either ignoring or blowing by what she’s known to have done, and digging in his little heels regarding the surviving contemporary accounts, such as Herod’s complaint that within minutes of meeting him she suggested they dismiss their attendants so he could do her.