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The author makes deep observations about inanimate objects, lyrical utterances that mean nothing to this reader. I struggled with the heavy poetic prose that makes the writing not only corny but incoherent to me. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East – As appealingly as this book was packaged, I gave up a few pages in. I even had a satisfying dream based on this chapter, a dream wherein I retrieved a part the brothers needed to make their invention work. One of my favorite essays was a close-up view of the Wright brothers–their persistence, genius, eventual success, and attempts to get deserved attention for their flying machine. However, he does seem to tip his hat to reformers who, he said, did not seek to tear down our capitalist system but to improve it by addressing wrongs. He takes a “warts and all” approach to America, at times getting too contemptuous and sarcastic for my taste. He goes on to paint for us the partying lifestyle of wealthy socialites, to tell of the time when a big businessman worked night and day to bring the economy back from the brink of failure, and to examine the employment of children in factories. Lord then takes us to the site of McKinley’s shooting and its aftermath, another incident I had just grazed in my history texts. I’d had the vaguest idea that there was a Boxer Rebellion this story gave a vivid account of a small army of various Marine troops–including Japanese–holding out bravely and ingeniously against their attackers. The book captured me from its first chapter about a besieged diplomatic community during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War – I was pleased to discover that this decades-old contribution from Walter Lord is a series of nearly self-contained narrative essays of the pre-World War I period. I also realize that there was an astonishing amount of wealth in our land even back then that many of the signers, if not lawyers, were surveyors or merchants that coming to agreement on the Constitution took weeks of summer meetings in a stifling room that there were sharp disagreements, especially on how representation in Congress could be fair to both large and small states and that a number of the wealthy participants also speculated (foolishly) on tracts of land to the west. This book corrects that assumption, revealing that there were other astute men on hand helping to hammer out an agreement and promote the Constitution to their home states. For example, I was under the impression that there were just a handful of upstanding “founding fathers” at the birth of our country.
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I got this as a Kindle deal for under two dollars, and it has been worth it to awaken my mind to facts surrounding this era. (A similar work on the Declaration is entitled Signing Their Lives Away.) Each piece gives background on the signer’s family life, his career, his part in the Constitutional Convention, and key life events after the signing. Signing Their Rights Away – This book provides absorbing bios for the thirty-nine signers of the Constitution. Note: The Kindle and audiobooks were deals I acquired on the cheap. Here I’m providing snapshots of media I’ve consumed lately since there’s too much material for discrete reviews.