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(More customer reviews)This book is very well written, from the angle of story telling. It is easily readable; it is not in the least boring, or hard reading.
Some have talked about it being a coffee table book, but I found it did better around here as a bathroom book. Everyone started reading it when I left it by the tub, including my 14 year old son.
Where it really shines, in my opinion, is discussing some business aspects of history. The story of George Eastman alone was well worth my time reading this book. What an amazing character he was! I'd never heard of him- of course he is NOT in the textbooks. They should put him in textbooks though, he's quite a role model! There's some nasty little tidbits too - like US Generals that hire themselves out to foreign countries.
I did find that the book kinda flicked around though, for example, it went from war to business to politics, to war. It was great to read first this story, and then that story, but I don't know if one TRIED to read it cover to cover if they could make much sense of the organization of the book. I never could really get a fix on that.
That said, the way it is encouraged in depth memorable short reading, and I liked it just the way it was very much, as did the family.
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