Great notice by William Grimes of the New York Times for Robert Irwin's Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents. "Mr. Irwin writes for a general audience in a lively, readable style....The payoff is Mr. Irwin’s all-out assault on Mr. Said, which makes for bracing reading."
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On p57, Robert Irwin says Nicholas of Cusa "exposed the Donation of Constantine ... as a medieval fake. I think Lorenzo Valla is usually given credit for that.
On p262, he says Bernard Lewis first used the expression "the clash of civilizations" in 1990 in the essay "The Roots of Muslim Rage".
In fact, however, Lewis used it much earlier in his EMERGENCE OF MODERN TURKEY, p418: "... the clash of civilizations in history does not usually culminate in a marriage of selected best elements, but rather in a promiscuous cohabitation of good, bad, and indifferent alike."
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