Doug's Good Books

"Model of clarity"? Pirenne's sentences are simple and they progress in nice cadences, and his words are always at the service of his teaching. He has done his job as a thinker and a writer: he's distilled the thousands of pages of documents and countless hours of personal experience into a readably-sized book. This book humbly and magically made me more familiar with some of the most basic structures of society; the ones that are forever being overcomplicated and, in our time, spun ... and that's no small accomplishment. Most books confuse; especially the more they try to amuse.