While this was a good selection and I enjoyed the book, I felt the author kept avoiding some of the key questions and exploration of consequences. Particularly the last quarter of the book just felt like skipping the waves. Perhaps it is because the true life Beryl Markham was such an iconoclast and larger than life character she could not be contained on the page.

Probably our least well known founding father, Alexander Hamilton, was likely most responsible for placing the foundations of American banking and commerce. This book is a comprehensive biography of a most complex individual who overcame poverty, illegitimacy, and prejudice to become a key figure in our history. Chernow manages to straddle successfully the line of intimate revelation with statesmanship and avoids the trap of minutia in the details. The book while big enough to serve as a door stop reads more like a novel. Well worth the time and effort.

this is like traveling back to a time of glamour, sophistication, and naivete. For those of us of a certain age it brings new insight to brief memories of the main participants. Underscores the observation that Capote was a hell-of-a writer and a complete failure as a person.

Gripping story with an excellent exploration of implicit bias and the golf of understanding between groups. The strong need to really discuss difficult subjects.

This is such a fresh story. The activity that triggers her adventure caused our club members to start looking up Mud-Larking tours. We are threatening a trip! The author does an amazing job of bouncing between present-day London and London of 1790. The characters are well-formed and you truly care about them. To the point of wanting to talk them out of what they are going to do. The only disappointment was how the modern character handled the intrusion of another. Otherwise, it was amazing