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Article: Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. (Tom Paine for the Eminem Era).
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- October 1, 2001
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Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty, by Karl Shaw; Virgin/Broadway Books, 2001, $16.95.
THE TOTAL, insignificance in Continental Europeans eyes of Manning Clark, Henry Reynolds and James Griffin is predictable. More surprising is most modern British historians' inability to win Continental respect. One of precious few British chroniclers ever to acquire high foreign esteem--the largely forgotten Sir Charles Petrie, member of Madrid's Royal History Academy and of Zaragoza's Institute of Ferdinand the Catholic--allowed himself in 1952 (George VI then being only months dead) these observations on monarchism's standing in the mass media:
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