Title: Incidental book on a monumental subject
Review: Perhaps "monumental" is overstating it, but Twain was a great writer, Grant was a great general. This is not a great book and doesn't do justice to Mr. Clemens or Ulysses "Sam" Grant. This book reads like a Readers Digest article or Weekly Reader abridgement, there's little meat and too much padding. Actually the majority of the book is padded unmercifully. The segment on James Garfield's assassination is a bizarre and unnecessary inclusion, there are other bird walks which don't add up to a hill of beans. It's interesting that the author, Mark Perry, is quite evidently the author of the two positive reviews here, why this wasn't caught by a editor here is a trifle mystifying. My advice is to read Grant's own "Memoirs" and Twain's "Autobiography" and nother bother with this.
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