As a lifelong Poe fan, lover of all things Darkly Victorian, and Secret Goth Child, this book seemed the perfect conglomeration of all these things. The book traces the dual stories of the murder of Mary Rogers, New York’s famous cigar shop girl, and Poe’s own attempts at literary fame, which includes having his fictional…
Tag: American history
Book Review: American Rebels by Nina Sankovitch
_ Well, I finally finished this. For the record, it wasn’t that the book was uninteresting, but quaranbrain and then adjusting to the changes when I returned to work took away brainpower. American Rebels follows the lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adam families in the lead-up to the American revolution. It shows the main…
Book Review: Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward J. Larson
Thanks to quaranbrain it took me a lot longer than I intended to read this book. I was actually quite interested in the premise of how Franklin and Washington’s teamwork had an impact on the founding of our country. As stated in the book, we have plenty of material focusing on their individual contributions….
Book Review: Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It by Susannah Ural
It is…difficult to find a nuanced discussion of the Civil War. Slavery was a horrific institution and it ought to be condemned, but unfortunately it is too often condemned by oversimplifying a war that was caused by an absolute pressure cooker of myriad issues that had been building between two increasingly different cultures in the…
Book Review: City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
It’s a bit hard to sum up this book in a pithy sentence, as I usually do with books. I suppose the best way to describe it is “hardened capitalists create city just to spite New York”. However, the book has much, much more to say about Chicago than just their friendly rivalry with NYC….
Eclectic and Eccentric 