RUTH F. (ruthy) reviewed on 6/10/2012 + 56 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I agree that this book is hard to read. He tried to be readable, but failed. There are good nuggets of information that isn't easily found else where. I enjoyed those nuggets and that was why I kept at it. It certainly points out where the US got their foreign policy and the ways it's used. Not that much has changed since 1804. You will get interesting info on early "Washington City". In this book a lot of the problems are that there are many quotes in the style of early American language. And there are of replicas of the original letters.

The nice thing is that at the end he tells what all eventually happened to the people involved after the main story ended. There is an extensive bibliography as well as a cast if characters according to the countries and positions they were allied to.

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