April 2005

Only Bill managed to finish it, but everyone enjoyed it, or rather, thought it a good book. It was stuffed full of facts, and too many people to keep track of, but she did a good job of sketching out the essence of the combatants. It played like a Greek tragedy, with poor decisions on all sides leading to calamity. Conversation inevitably turned to those in power, then and now, only seeing what they wanted to see, and not learning from past history.

August 2014

Re-reading for the centennial.