I like Hannah Arendt too much to fully agree with this book. At the idea of democracy as the preventative of all genocide is simplistic at best. This is an exhaustive, significant book, and I appreciated Goldhagen's care and commitment, and particularly his analysis of what he defines as the five major types of cruelty (I think there are more than he lists, but it's certainly a start), yet this book felt needlessly obtuse and lacking in larger historical perspective. Good, but flawed.