I have been on an American Revolution reading kick and realized that my pre-revolution knowledge was disappointingly, (is that even a word?), lacking.
Thus on the basis of some Amazon reviews I checked out the book from the Chicago Public Library.
They had to transfer it from another branch, took 6 weeks even though it was not checked out.
So pissed at the delay that I almost did not go to pick it up, and the condition?
Disgusting.
I am not a fan of book burnings but this book should be burned, and not for the usual reasons, (a witch), but because I suspect this came from Mary Mallon's, (a.k.a. Typhoid Mary), library.
Oddly enough I said I would give it one chapter.
That was all it took.
I am now at the point where the French have basically been vanquished from their North American holdings, (Indian and African to boot), and George the IInd has just passed away.
Outstanding book, very detailed, covers a wide breadth, but does not lose its readability.
Once done I plan to buy a clean hard copy for my own private library.
Might even kick around in that area of reading, but no, I have promised myself to read all of the books that I have purchased, and then possibly come back to this area.
Until then it is off to visit the comely lasses that will climb up the ladder to reach for those books on the high shelf that I requested, with me gallantly holding the ladder steady.
(Oh the shame of it all, the shame).
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