Title: Wishful thinking on a grand scale
Review: While Mr. Flint obviously has done a considerable amount of research on 17th-century Europe, which at least makes the book informative, his style of writing is more suited for that used in comic books. The plot is shallow, controversy is minimal, and the protagonist characters are so much more superior than their "evil" enemies, the outcome of their struggle does not produce even a shadow of a doubt. The author attempted to pluck at the patriotic strings of his readers by having a small group of people from a coal-mining community strive to build the new United States inside war-ravaged Europe, and for some it obviously works - patriotism is a powerful driving force, just look at the success of the movie "Independence Day." However, even this cannot compensate for sugary-plain romance between a number of couples in the story, one-sided battle scenes, and single-minded thought process of the book's characters.
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