The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
“At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!”
“As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.”