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Michael Webb michaelwebb — This great biography of George Washington deserves its critical and popular praise. At the end I felt that I knew both the man and the country he helped create. Chernow does a better job than any other book I've read in depicting Washington's courage during battles and how his presence and leadership stopped many American retreats and inspired many American advances during key moments in the Revolutionary War. However, this is not a fawning biography, Chernow discusses strategic mistakes by Washington, how he sometimes did not protect flanks during battle leading to defeat and how he sometimes he did not adapt to changing battlefield conditions as other great generals have done.However, Chernow leaves the Revolutionary War chapters leaving little doubt that it was Washington's leadership that made the difference in the War. Chernow also shows that Washington did not just believe that it was the battlefields that were the key to the war, he also shows Washington's preoccupation with financing of the war and the need for a country to develop credit and a strong financial system. Chernow neatly ties this war time issue with Washington's later actions as President during the disputes between Hamilton and Jefferson/Madison over financial controversies such as debt assumption, national credit and central bank The book is strongest in its analysis of Washington and slavery. Too often books look at our founding father's attitudes and actions toward slavery by either the easy hindsight of today's standards or by excusing all actions as a product of the times. Chernow does not. He acknowledges Washington's growing personal discomfort and eventual opposition to slavery and that Washington's treatment of slavery was better than most(such as reluctance of breaking up slave families) and of course discusses Washington's emancipation of his own slaves at the time of his death. However, Chernow points to incidents that show that Washington knew or should have known better the effects of slavery. During the war the English were at one time at Mt Vernon and offered freedom to any of Washington's slaves. 17 accepted and Washington sought their return after the war. Also after the war, Washington pressed the English for return of all slaves who fought for the British in exchange for their independence, even when the British pointed out that many slaves would commit suicide before being forced to return. More poignant was at the end of his Presidency when two of Washington's household slaves escaped as opposed to returning to Mt Vernon. Washington and his wife felt betrayed at the escapes and tried mightily to have them captured and returned(fortunately, he was unsuccessful) Chernow's treatment of the slavery issue was the most honest and balanced I have seen with the exception of Annette Gordon-Reed's books on Jefferson and slavery Chernow also did an excellent job in intertwining Washington's personal life with Washington's military and political leadership. His treatment of the friendship and possible intimate relationship with Sally Fairfax shows the human side of Washington. Chernow quotes a letter to her at the end of their lives when Washington said his happiest and best moments in his life were his times with her and Chernow comments that this was significant from a man who built up personal wealth, defeated England in a war, and founded a country--but still considered his time as a young man infatuated with Fairfax as the happiest time of his life This is a great book and well worth the read

Ahmed Abd 3bnasser — this book was a total surprise; i picked it up on the street and was blown away. it is a fictionalized narrative of a war that occurred in southern brazil in the late 19th century. an itinerant preacher espousing his own brand of christian faith wanders southern brazil, eventually gathering thousands of followers from the poorest ranks of brazilian society. they settle in a town called canudos, and are branded traitors by a government in conflict looking for scapegoats. this band of starving fanatics fends off the full force of the brazilian army for an amazing amount of time. the depth of llosa's writing had me wondering what was real and what was fiction even in some of the most fantastic moments. ever read a book and then want everyone you know to read it? yeah, this one.

Teo Lam teolam — It's nice to see things from Polgara's perspective, but a lot of what I was most interested in was skipped over. There are also some inconsistencies from the earlier texts (which is only natural, over so much time). I have to admit I was also a little bothered by some of the double standards about chastity and sexuality, when comparing what Belgarath got up to, and what Polgara was forbidden to do.

Dawoon Kang woon000000986 — Male coming-of-age story, basically male chick-lit, but smart and savvy with perfect details to carry through the sagging sections.

Luca Vass lucavass1117e8 — just as enticing as Devil in the White City, possibly even more so!

Saif Xie lietoo2010 — Horrifying. Reading this book was possibly the most wrenching literary experience of my life. Exhaustively researched and noted (the narrative covers barely more than half of the book's 430 printed pages, the rest are notes, references, etc.), this must be considered the most important and complete historical account of what is, without any question, the blackest hour of LDS church history. As a Mormon myself, I have no words for that awful scene. The historians do an admirable job of placing the massacre in its proper historical context, and they are unflinching in their condemnation of its perpetrators, regardless of what the Latter-day Saints had endured in their relatively short history and what they feared was coming at the hands of the government and other settlers. Certainly those who planned and carried out the murders recognized that there was no excuse for what they had done. I am not a big "moral of the story" kind of reader, but this book ought to give anyone, and certainly Mormons in particular, pause. The fact that otherwise good faithful church leaders allowed themselves to be caught up in the frenzied paranoia of that moment to such a degree that they would even consider, let alone carry out, this atrocity should cause each of us to think about our assumptions, how we might allow our emotions, assumptions, and personal fears to govern our actions. We dare not assume that such a deed could not be emulated, to one degree or another, in our day.