Max
Just incredibly well-written and devastating to read. The perfect introduction to just how brutal and nakedly treasonous Reconstruction was, should be required school reading.
Whatever small informational value there is in this book is not even close to worth slogging through the writing.
This book builds a great world and a great thriller plot and then mostly fills it with terrible writing. But still a fun read.
Probably the most bafflingly written thing I have ever read. A lot of great information trapped in a horrible, unclear, drama-less style.
Probably should be more stars, but that was a little too dark and close to home for comfort.
Occasionally this book bogs down in just a little too much detail about an operation or patrol. But the rest of the time it's among the best writing on war and morality I've ever read.
Uneven, as you'd probably expect of a collection of articles. One or two that are truly incredible, though.
I made it to roughly page 50 before the urge to give up overpowered anything else. This is a shockingly bad book, especially given how necessary its warnings are. Every sentence is unnecessarily convoluted; every paragraph is more disjointed and baffling than the next. It's virtually impossible to learn anything because wading through the prose and the useless asides takes so much effort. This is a total waste. Put it aside and wait until someone else writes the book this should have been.
A lot more scattered than most other Michael Lewis books, but it's worth reading to get a sense of just how colossally some critical functions are being fucked up by the Trump administration.
Starts off stronger than it ends; the more abstract the empire gets, the less revelatory it is. But at least half of this book has some stunning thing on every page that we all should have learned in middle school.
Information literally every American should know and absorb, but a dense read even for a short book. I'm kind of hoping someone uses this as the basis for a bigger history book.
