摘要：This isn't your typical history book. A typical history book works chronologically from the subject's origins on forward. In addition, a typical history book has citations, bibliography and a bibliography—and this book does not to its discredit. However, the author, in his introduction [p. xii], explains that this is an "informal history." Actually he argues that he "tried to make it a heritage book instead of a history book." Cutler explains: "To me history is the stuff that scholars study for the good of the world. Heritage is the stuff that makes me stand a little taller and walk with a bit of swagger."
