But of the few books I've read, my favourite is Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (Crown Publishers, New York).

"The West was blinded by his conquests," said Jack Weatherford, an American anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

Christopher Columbus "symbolizes everything that is against basic American values," said Jack Weatherford, a professor of anthropology at Macalester College, in St. Paul, and a leading anti-Columbus scholar.

Past and present faculty include Hubert Humphrey, Jack Weatherford, Wang Ping and George Latimer.

Jack Weatherford - The Secret history of the Mongol queens.

According to Jack Weatherford, this was possibly the first re-evaluation of the Mongol empire since the 18th century.

Jack Weatherford explains how the peoples of the Americas have been forgotten for their contributions to the modern world.

Only in recent times have people not bothered to pick up coins, said Jack Weatherford, a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., who studies the use of money.

One historian, Jack Weatherford, contends that the first factory was in Potosí, for processing silver ingot slugs into coins, because there was so much silver being mined close by.

"They weren't as hung up on blood as we are," said Jack Weatherford, author of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World."