But the sheer unlikelihood of an historical event is no indicator, let alone guarantee, of its desirability. Adolf Hitler's career was as unlikely as Castro's, and Goebbels's as unlikely as Guevara's, but we would regard a dual biography of Hitler and Goebbels that left us in doubt as to the author's attitude to his subjects as unsatisfactory.
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