Title: He finds the heart of the story.
Review: Too often history is written with an exhaustion of details. Trivial facts that, while interesting to the devoted, rarely mean much to the overall and grander story. David McCullough doesn't fall into that trap with this book. It's short (for a history book) and it accurately paints the awful circumstances, the frustrating human failings and the glorious triumph of this glorious nation. And it does it in less than 300 pages.Add to that the almost novel-like structure - foreshadowing, parallel narratives with intercut scenes, a limited cast from thousands of potential characters - and you have a really exciting story.This book makes you proud(er) to be an American. Incredible birth to this great nation. Incredible book to help tell it.
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