This was a very informitive and well researched history on elephants in America. It goes through the origins of how America has used elephants as symbols and icons and also chronicles the advances we have made in understanding how to care for elephants properly. I think it is written from a very unbiased view point. It simply tells you all the information you could want to know about elephants without the authors opinons. Some parts are hard to read, and early in elephants history in America they were treated very cruely, but it just makes you appriciate them more.