C. Bentley

Great product., April 25, 2011

I like the utensils in this dining set because they are easy to grip, but not sharp. The plate has a nice rubber ring on the bottom that keeps it from sliding from the table to the floor when the kids get careless. We bought 2 of these. One for our little girl and one for our little boy. The colors are bright and both kids love green so this purchase was great for us.

A nice story, but left me disappointed, April 4, 2009

No doubt the event provides the basis for an interesting story, but I thought that this book was low on insight. It's remarkable to read and see some of the similarities between 1907 and 2008, but the authors offer little insight regard causes, solutions, and lessons to be drawn. The final chapter makes an attempt, but was pretty weak, in my opinion.

Perhaps I was expecting too much.

While the story is quite good, there is certainly not even an attempt made at a balanced treatment of J.P. Morgan. That may bother you, and it may not. I was not particularly annoyed by it.

To sum it up, I liked the story, and saw very little in terms of "lessons learned."

Absolutely Superb, April 4, 2009

As stated by others, this is an absolutely superb effort by McCullough; in my mind by far his best. It ranks with the best biographies I have ever read, and may be at the very top of the list.

McCullough paints a comprehensive picture of Harry S. Truman, in which childhood perceptions about family, wartime leadership experience, business failures, and messy Kansas City politics all instill an incredible desire in the man to succeed on his own merits, all leading up to what is probably the climax of the book--the account of the 1948 presidential election. But every portion of this book is eminently enjoyable, and one cannot help, after reading it, to come away with a new… Read more