Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Historian with a muddled agenda

The author spends far too much time defending his choices against invisible enemies (bureaucrats being a favored target) and far little time on the content and its influence. One imagines his editor overlooking the worst of what made it into the book out of sheer exhaustion, unwilling to bring another battle to bear. Consider this ridiculous summation of his entry on Homer: "...and already the robot-clerks who, with plastic identification buttons on their lapels[gasp!], plan curricula, have no place for them [his works]. Only when it is pointed out to them that sales of Homer have made money for hundreds of years do their dead eyes seem to glint." What a dope.