I read (most of) his book on the fall of Rome. It has a lot of hard data about what happened. But the most noticeable thing about the book is how partisan it s

I read (most of) his book on the fall of Rome. It has a lot of hard data about what happened. But the most noticeable thing about the book is how partisan it seems. He writes as if he were writing about a present day political controversy. You don't usually see that in books on ancient history. What he's a partisan of is the idea that the western empire really fell hard. There is a continuum of opinion on that. From what I know so far I tend to be on his side, but he's so heavy handed about it that I find it makes me skeptical about everything he says.