Bokenkotter Concise History of Catholic Church

This book seems to me an appalling distortion and misrepresentation of Church History. It is used as a text at our local Catholic college and I hope my comments and those of others will identify major distortions and publicize more accurate histories. Certainly the history of the Christian Church is enormously complex and difficult to summarize, but Bokenkotter virtually ignores both the enormous social contributions of the early and current Church, and most of the dreadful persecution against the Church. Instead virtually 2/3 of the book is a gross celebration Bokenkotter calls the unmaking of Christendom which begins at page 150, praising all forms of modern enlightenment/ renaissance/ liberalism/ materialism.
In his conclusion Bokenkotter cheerfully opines that the Church faces a broad array of seemingly insoluble problems, then comments indirectly that Protestants are even less likely to solve them than Catholics (ie goodby Christendom according to Bokenkotter). Why would any Christian school buy this book?