referenced. Due to this, the book is a poor and likely lessconvincing introduction for those who are not already familiar with the studies, statistics, and phenomena quoted but not cited and do not know where to find them.
See my criticism of Aron Ra's 'Fundamental Falsehoods of Creationism' for the same fault, though this book, unlike that, relies far more on what should be cited and less on sustained argumentation.
Unlike in Ra's work, nothing here is built up
from first principles but relies on 'common sense' premises that are not widely acknowledged and which Polignano is arguing for, turning much of the argumentation in to an exercise in 'the conclusion follows if the premises are true' with the premises asserted and not argued.
That being said, having found the evidence for many of the author's premises elsewhere and having it previously to hand, the book is decent, though it often repeats in a lessrigorous form things that are better argued and asserted elsewhere.
MICHAEL J. POLIGNANO first came to national attention inwhen, as an undergraduate at Emory University, he ignited a storm of controversy by writing in the school newspaper about the scientifically established fact that racial differences are largely genetic.
TAKING OUR OWN SIDE is a collection ofshort essays, editorials, reviews, and satires, These lucidly written, carefully reasoned essays are profound, poignant, and occasionally prophetic, They are also sometimes brutally frank and hilariously funny, Michael Polignano shows how to make the most radical positions seductively reasonable, TAKING OUR OWN SIDE establishes him as one of the most compelling and versatile writers in the North American New Right, .