wildly uneven level of individual chapters

[Michael Eisenstadt]

I am reading the one on Cuban anti-Americanism
one of the better written chapters of this 
FASCINATING book.

And I should say that it is my great pleasure
to report to you my varied delight in a 
good book at hand not yet completely
devoured

Pepi cursed as "americana" in a Venezulan 
market place is a basic datum so thank you
Pepi for sharing it

other chapters on, for example, at home left-wing
anti-americanism, are not very good at all,
basically because it is too close to the bone
for an American scholar to examine and so 
his/her partiality hopelessly compromises  
the chapter's worth. too bad!

moral judgments on the "guilt" or "innocence" of 
the term's referent (anti-Americanism's 
referent being "America" or Americans) if once 
allowed to creep in to the chapter hopelessly 
compromise it as scholarship. this is easier
to avoid doing when writing about Cuba or 
France or Germany than when writing about 
American anti-Americanism.