Clint Smith is a wonderful wordsmith. Reading his book I almost felt that I was traveling with him.
Smith is an excellent researcher. There is so much we don't know and so much we have not been told. So much of history has been whitewashed. And as guilty as Americans are and were, we, and our ancestors are not the only people who have been controlled by greed and inhumanity. It is a universal problem. Smith looks objectively at different angles and viewpoints of key people, places and events. I learned so much and racked up a lot of bunny trails to go down. Book number two on my "read until you understand" adventure. This one should be required reading for all of us, especially our high school students.