Rating: 
Summary: How can a man of such historical ignorance write history?
Review: This is the gentleman,who at the end of the broadcast on the British leaving Hong Cong, stated that only 200 years ago the British were ramming opium down the throats of the Chinese. Unless laughing at the how the ignorant can influence millions amuses you, save your time and read the equally ignorant outpourings of your daily newspaper. (Yes Virginia, opium was legal in this country less than two hundred years ago and doctors thought it was a miracle drug.) It is understandable that Mr. Jennings needed assistance in writing this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent and accessible for those who thing history is "bor
Review: I liked this book, and so will some people who think they hate history - which is all to the good in my opinion. The first-hand accounts are really riveting and should enlighten those who pine for the "good old days". Maybe it's not scholarly, but most of us would never get a feel for the period or see these wonderful photos without a book like this. I do object to the title, but Harold Evans already has "The American Century". Two years after the Titanic sunk with the loss of 1500 people, as many as 22,000 a day were being killed in France alone, making the sinking a blip on the historical radar screen.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent review of history that is a great read!
Review: I bought this book as a Xmas gift for my brother, and he has raved about it. My 82 yr. old mother has shown a great interest in it to, but made the comment that the book is to big and heavy for many elderly people to hold. I would like to suggest that you consider publishing the book in sections that are individually bound and put together for sale in a box sleeve. That way, separate sections of the book may be read at a time and they would be easier for the elderly to hold. Also, perhaps consider a larger, bolder print face. I feel that the elderly would find this book fascinating and would enjoy it immensely if it were in a more convenient and lighter weight format. Thanks for writing this book that makes history such an enjoyable read.
Rating:
Summary: A wonderful coffee table book for the 21st century.
Review: Peter Jennings puts together an exciting and comprehensive look at the twentieth century. "The Century" is not a book that you will sit down and read cover to cover, yet it is a book that you will want to show your grandchildren and generations that will follow ours. We are entering into the twenty-first century and we must remember and cherish the twentieth century. I highly reccommend this book for all ages.
Rating:
Summary: TV Journalism in print
Review: I have to admit I didn't read the entire thing; I started reading it in a Borders and finally put it back, pretty much disgusted with the shallowness and the boas of the book.Even the presence of a Jennings' ghost writer doesn't save this thing. It's a picture book for the MTV generation, catering to fashionable views with nothing that you could call scholarship. At best it's a comic book that might interest a child in delving deeper into a subject. A far more interesting and detailed book (though just as biased in its own way) is Paul Johnson's "Modern Times". If you buy the Jennings book, get Johnson's as well and from the two you may get a more interesting and complete picture.
Rating: 
Summary: Dust in the eyes
Review: PETER JENNINGS conveniently forgot to mention the first GENOCIDE of the 20th century, the Armenian genocide of 1915,where 1and a half million innocent Armenians were massacred at the hands of the ottoman turks. Interestingly, the Holocaust was not left out.
Rating:
Summary: Bias?
Review: The book contains some good stuff, but it forgets to mention one thing -- the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 by the Turkish government when 1.5 to 2 million Armenians were tortured and killed. I wonder what Jennings was thinking. Maybe he got some favors from the Turkish government which until now refuses to recognise what it did.
Rating:
Summary: Future historians will find it worthless.
Review: If this book was intended to be a summary of news stories, embellished by anecdotal information, then the authors' objectives have been met. If, however, the authors were hoping to memorialize events which, at the end of the next century, left an imprint on our nation and the world, then they missed the boat. The impact of surging human populations, and the complications resulting from migration, have been the story of our century. But it never became the story for Jennings' The Century. Future historians in the next 100 years will look back on demographics and migration as having a profound impact on our culture, civilization, freedoms and body of laws. Migration was mentioned for the 1920s. Thereafter, the issue vanished from the book. But it has not vanished for the rest of us. It is lamentable that a 606 page work on The Century would overlook these factors.
Rating:
Summary: The Century that forgot the Titanic Sinking!
Review: Peter Jennings forgot one of the most talked about accidents in history. How could he write about the century and forget the sinking of the Titanic.
Rating: 
Summary: Interesting...But Missing Alot
Review: I bought this book for my husband for Xmas. I spent several nites reading it, when I should have been wrapping it. The premise is great, the eyewitness accounts fascinating but they left out SO MUCH. Like what, you ask? The Titanic, Bruno Hauptmann, any mention of the Lindeburgh kidnapping, The Hindenburg, Amelia Airheart... to name a few. You can probably find more things, depending on your own interests. I realize they couldn't include EVERYTHING (it was a long 100 years) but to give OJ a page and a half, same for Princess Diana and not mention some of the above? Not a bad book, but could have been a GREAT one.
| 
