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Title: Great history. Lousy book.
Review: The story, told through newspaper articles and letters, is a wonderful picture of the early years of our country. If only the author could write or an editor had known how to edit, this could have been a great book.In the first section. Rosenfield regurgitates Poor Richard every page and a half as if his life depended on it. Throughout the book, exclamation marks are abused for information that is no different than anything else being told.A bigger problems, though, is the useless third person (Duane) view of the supposed author. Pretension and space wasting. The story didn't need that cloying affectation.Finally, it's just too long. He could have cut many redundant letters, explanations and quotes. I read the same thing over and over. The book would have been much better at half to 2/3's its current length.I usually check a book out of the library, read it, and then buy a copy if I want one in my personal library. This is one that won't get to the final step.
