In a New York Times book review , historian and member of the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Committee William Hardy McNeill wrote about Sale : `` he has set out to destroy the heroic image that earlier writers have transmitted to us .
In a New York Times book review , historian and member of the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Committee William H. McNeill wrote about Sale : `` he has set out to destroy the heroic image that earlier writers have transmitted to us .