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Title: A tired recount of what we already knew.
Review: Where is the story here? Where is the hero? The book is just a rambling bunch of facts about the circus fire, and debatable facts at that. Where is Rick Davey's research? It seems to try to dispute Rick Davey, but there's no back up to that. All O'Nan tells us is what led everyone to believe for years that 1565 was NOT Eleanor Emily Cook, the old news. What information does Rick Davey have that counters this? It must be something substantial if the State of Connecticut exhumed the body and buried her with the Cook family. Perhaps part of the reason O'Nan's book is so poor because he does not know this information. On the first page O'Nan says he didn't even want to write the book. Why did he bother? Abysmal writing, pitiful structure. Matter of Degree by Rick Davey and Don Massey is going to knock this right over on its boring side.
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