Title: Spotty Scholarship
Review: While I consider myself something of a history buff, I've never really gotten the Civil War bug. This year my parents tried to draw me in with "April 1865".While I liked many of the Winik's observations and tangents, even a cursory scan revealed errors that a good fact checker should have caught. Compounding these simple errors were stilted classical allusions that seemed either incredibly obscure or incorrect.As a neophyte, I gained a fair bit of information on the War and the primary actors. I only wish that I could trust the strength of Winik's scholarship. As it is, I feel like I'll need to do follow up reading just to accept Winik's arguments.This is not what I would have expected given the warm praise on the backcover.
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