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I've heard a lot of neoconservatives and other literal-minded car huggers (``O'Goebbels'' on Fox News) compare this Iraq conflict to World War II, using outrageous analogies or even outright labeling it ``World War III.
The literal-minded may note that the building's sixth story isn't mentioned, though seven tales are indeed featured.
This is at times a rather literal-minded book, prone to over-simplification and even distortion when it ventures into (for example) Chartism, wages and working conditions, missing out on or under-using one or two important books (particularly Lyn Munqn's Popular leisure in the Lake Counties), and taking a few liberties with English place-names (the worst of which locates the Mendip Hills in Cheshire instead of Somerset, two hundred miles to the south).
 
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