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Read my full review: http://bit.ly/19Okbq1 My opinion: This was an excellent, well researched read. The details of what this author knew was amazing and was unbiased in its presentation. On that note, because of the vast amount of detail, this was an incredibly slow read. I was able to read about...
I started this biography of John Adams right after reading Flexner's biography of George Washington. I said in that review that no doubt reading a biography of a different American founder by another author would complicate the picture. Boy, did it ever! This is a well-written, erudite biography, a...
Blog review in progress+Excellent, well researched read+well detailed and slower read
unfortunately a new low in ebook descriptions-- book is 1/3rd footnotes and references. so it is not 700 pages, but a solid 450. however, the amazon.com special price of 1.99 erases most of any ill feeling.crisply written; well-researched; flowing text. about as good as an eighteenth century war boo...
What a cool look at Washington! Like many I'd read all about how he was disinterested in politics. I'd always wondered about it considering the amount of good he achieved. Ferling is excellent as he traces Washington's growth and his reactions to difficult situations in an intelligent and astute way...
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