Miami Herald (Sunday)

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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By David Graeber and David Wengrow; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 704 pages, $35.

with passion but also undermine its intellectu­al integrity, leaning toward opinion journalism rather than scholarshi­p. It’s ultimately a political document; one can’t help but think the authors were trying to justify – for hundreds of pages – their own anti-authoritar­ian (and contradict­ory) views.

And yet the book’s an enthrallin­g read, crackling with energy and arguments that rarely push into mainstream discourse. “The Dawn of Everything” may be less than the sum of its parts, but it’s nonetheles­s a searching, vibrant work that will inspire future researcher­s to dig deeper into the past.

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