Do you sometimes feel you shouldn't have started a book that has remained unread on your shelves for ages? Picking up the author's last book which takes a meandering look at American independence in the context of the decline of Dutch and French maritime power, Tuchman's famous approach to 'history-as-a-story' is much in evidence but syntactically, the book is a mess and my version is littered with typographical errors. A tarnished but not ruined memory.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 63 Winter 2012 ) |
