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It's 1790. Revolution seems to be going swimmingly. Will harmony last? Stay tuned.

Finally, the chapter on the Bastille. I know, there was a lot of important lead up that had to be exposited. You can't do Lexington and Concord without the Stamp Act etc.

Bread riots; folks are hungry and conspiratorial

We're still 100s of pages away from the storming of the Bastille.

Impressive historiography. Not an entry-level book for this subject.

Pet macaques who smoke cigarettes.

I'm determined to finish this 😀

Unlike the TV show, George Hearst comes off favorably in the text.

Calamity Jane keeps showing up.

Calamity Jane makes an appearance

Seems that HBO's Deadwood (a great show), depicted real people like Sheriff Seth Bullock. Cozzens is a great writer and I'm looking forward to this book.

Think of every synonym of "sweepingly expansive"

Beyond cosmic

So much better written than Operation Bowler.

This book is astonishingly awful. I'm going to skip ahead to the final three chapters which get closer to the title of the book.

Chapter 1 is astoundingly badly edited/written. There's no continuity; it is as if the author's research note cards were thrown in the air and then pasted together into the chapter.

If this doesn't get better soon, it is going to be a dnf.

Four years in and he's still flying sorties

Yet another pilot memoir

About to go into action in Angola.

Has a book blurb on back cover from Chuck Norris. Hmm.

Intriguing so far.

Hot sub action in cold Arctic.

Gloomy.