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Review title: Not a good selection.
Product review: Paradise Alley is a book that should not be refered to by Kevin Bakers as a "Hisotrical Novel." First of all, the book is dry and to long. The author does not get up to what the real meaning of the book, the 1863 New York Draft Riots, until page 350 and above. Before the pages to the riot, the author is developing the characters, which is nice to know the people at first hand, but in the end it was to drawn out. Then the riots begin. From this point, it does not get any better. By reading the last 300 or so pages, it was unclear what the author was trying to pass onto the reader. It felt like Baker was not getting down to what the riots was about and the major impact it had on New York City. He did not show the reader that this riots was the worest in the U.S. history. Baker just writes about the riots as if it was a small and insignificant riot. He could have done a better job. I would not recommend this book for a study or even a over view of the 1863 NY draft riot.
