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Title: "Biography" only in the loosest sense
Review: If this book were a biography of a person, say Abraham Lincoln, we'd get something like a chapter dealing with Lincoln's food preferences from baby porridge to his last dinner before going on to the Ford Theater. Then we would be treated to a discussion of what he wore beginning with swaddling clothes and ending with his taste in stove pipe hats. In other words, there would be only the murkiest and most difficult to follow time line, with Mr. Lincoln's life chopped up into arbitrary chapters, some of which don't even stick to their stated topic. Neither good history nor a good read.
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