mc1945's reviews
59 reviews

Hodes looks at the wide spectrum of reactions to Lincoln's assassination. This was a good read, but also a little repetitive at times. She uses a crazy amount of primary sources + sources that would be easily overlooked by other historians! I can understand why this book won big awards, but I probably wouldn't read it in its entirety again.

I was assigned to read this book... I found it to be incredibly boring.

This is slow and incredibly dated. You couldn't pay me enough to get me to read this again.

Wow! Listened to this book in one setting. Narrated by the author. She does an excellent job of describing how it feels to live with chronic illness- would recommend to anyone with an autoimmune disease or a loved one with an autoimmune disease!

The author's perspective as a former public defender makes for a very interesting read.

Would definitely read again and would definitely recommend to the greater public audience! Lots of interesting things to think about, I would love to hear what the author thinks about how the death care field has developed since this book was first published!

Very interesting, but absolutely disturbing. I don't think I could have interviewed Dr. Grigson...

A good conversation started, but super repetitive at times.

Too long and focused way too much on New Jersey.