Document. Book reivew of The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future by Richard Rubenstein in AMERICA. ~ Gordon says that Rubenstein opens several highly significant areas for discussion, but says the book is limited in its material. He says that Rubenstein's position that the Holocaust was made possible by the rationalization of Western societies and by fundamentalist religious traditions is interesting, but the book needs more extensive analysis. ~ America ~ 5/8 ~ 410-411