I've finished reading this, but only because I cannot read anymore. As I said in my earlier update...he is a very angry man yelling about academics whilst not providing any proof or backing up any of his arguments. He basically just hates historians and has a temper tantrum for the entire book.

'But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.'