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A review by mynameiskate
Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll
3.0
This was pretty good. Probably even a 3.5 stars. It got a little rambly at times, but Carroll chose out-of-the ordinary stories and people. And I liked the way he wrote the history of a place, the biography of the person and his own experience together.
I also found his end notes/bibliography/acknowledgements unusual. He had a section for each story in the book which included all his thank you's and a relevant bibliography. This was super handy.
One thing that did disappoint me .. also in his end notes, he included teasers of the people and places that he didn't write about. Most of them were women. I wish he had included more women's stories in the main text of the book itself.
Overall .. if you like out-of-the-ordinary American history, you'll probably like this.
I also found his end notes/bibliography/acknowledgements unusual. He had a section for each story in the book which included all his thank you's and a relevant bibliography. This was super handy.
One thing that did disappoint me .. also in his end notes, he included teasers of the people and places that he didn't write about. Most of them were women. I wish he had included more women's stories in the main text of the book itself.
Overall .. if you like out-of-the-ordinary American history, you'll probably like this.