I've been meaning to read something about the formation of the USA, and somebody recommended this to me. But the wikipedia article says it's very military and largely ignores the politics, which is pretty much the opposite of what I'm looking for. Could I have your thoughts when you've read it?



Rebekah read this last year as part of her list. I started it after she'd finished but found it pretty uninteresting, tbh. But it was probably just that it was too high-brow for me.



My English teacher at school said this should be read in a single night in the company of a bottle of red wine. I'm hoping to be able to follow his advice.



Do we have much poetry? I thought nearly everything was "And King X, who lives for ever, received 500 bushels of wheat as a tribute". What is their poetry like?



See my reply to Jonte.



This would have been on my list as Rebekah was planning to take her copy with illustrations by Doré back from New Zealand. But unfortunately we didn't have the space in our luggage.



I used Russian wikipedia to find out what that was in English before noticing your exchange with Larry ' />. Also, I never knew the Russian "G" could look like a backwards "S".