http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3345/is_5_21/ai_n28976477 Eric Hobsbawm: lying to the credulous New Criterion, Jan, 2003 by David Pryce-Jones Eric Hobsbawm is no doubt intelligent and industrious, and he might well have made a notable contribution as a historian. Unfortunately, lifelong devotion to Communism destroyed him as a thinker or interpreter of events. Such original work as he did concerned bandits and outlaws. But even here there is bias, for he rescued them from obscurity... read more
