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3.0
The book did a great job of illustrating the era. I wasn't as impressed with how it illustrated the people who form the centre of these events. Descriptions of 20s America felt lived in and real, with enough facts to make it realistic and enough elaborate description to make it familiar. With the people the book tried to get inside their heads and close to their lives, at times seeming to overstep its mission to tell the truth in favour of giving an impression of what those people were doing at the time. At other times though it backed of too much, making the motivations of the people at work too distant. By swinging too wildly from using artistic license to bring the tale to life and admitting the limits of writing about historical figures, it was hard to grow properly invested in the events being relayed.
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