Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Be Aware of the Racism

Because so many eminent researchers point to this book as an inspiration, I was excited to read it. I was quite disappointed that the author is more than just a little racist. In the text, the noble white man saves the ignorant black, brown and yellow man described by the most vulgar of epithets. De Kruif may be a man of his time, but the attitude is nonetheless disturbing. I was also surprised that for an otherwise scholarly approach, De Kruif uses the words virus, bacterium and microbe interchangeably. I would definitely *not* recommend this title for children.