

The city is the star no matter which story line your following. There are wars to prosper from and fires to fight. No point in getting to attached to any of them for the most part they’ll be gone in a few chapters.

There are other families to illustrate slavery, natives, and immigration. Stop rolling your eyes if they get stuck looking into the back of your head then you can’t read anymore. But, he covers a lot of territory from angels I don’t often read-Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address from a press photographer’s point of view.įollows a prospering mostly WASP family from New Amsterdam to post-911. In places the research shows like the opposite of an actor giving a seamless performance.

It’s billed as assessable history, so depending on your base line parts seem rushed and lite.
