3.5/5
- non-fiction is hard and has always been hard for me to read (i'm trying to get better!). so this one is not one of my favs. but it is a good history book for the casual reader, as if told by your very well-educated, verbose, witty, and memorious grandfather. not stuck up on the second-by-second play, and more concerned with what we can glean from history now. it is obviously a biased perspective but i found it very fairly biased, and in fact, in many places, much kinder than it could have been
- i do find it recommendable but only to people who want to read history without a history book, and with a little bit of snark thrown in