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Review title: This book is thin and unfocused.
Product review: After reading the reviews on this page, I was looking forward to reading this book. However, after getting about four hundred pages into it, I was completely dissappointed and frustrated. The book spends way too much time exploring what I perceive to be completely irrelevant storylines (i.e., the courtship of Kate Chase, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury), yet deals with such events as the debacle at Fredericksburg with literally one passing line. Maybe I'm missing something, but this book seems to be more written toward being a made-for-TV miniseries than great historical fiction. I believe the only reason I gave this book even two stars is because I have an interest in the subject matter.
