It's also a quick read or, in this case, listen. Still, it's not awful & does bring to light some historically unpopular truths & lessons. No mention of his heroics or how much of a popularity contest rank was in the fledgling country or what many of his peers were doing. Her summary makes one wonder why he achieved the rank & standing he did. I really noticed this with Benedict Arnold since I just read a biography about him not long ago. There is no balance or attempt to put many of their actions into historical context. There are thumbnail biographies of over a dozen famous people that Bragg uses to make moral points of, so she's quite judgmental & over simplifies very badly at times. Joseph Jefferson Jackson (“Shoeless Joe”).Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain and will empathize with the flawed humanity of these achievers. Bruce Ismay commissioned the unsinkable marvel of the sea, the Titanic-and then jumped the line of women and children to escape death on a lifeboat. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus’s expeditions-and for creating the Spanish Inquisition. His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short. Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world.
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