A solid punch to the face of Hagiography. Very interesting, a sober examination of those we tend to revere blindly. I was most surprised by the amount of dueling and the chapter on exhuming the dead; that was a bit shocking. They still don't know where Thomas Paine's body is after it was stolen and hauled off to Britain. Paine was stored under some nut's bed and inherited by the nut's son and then disappeared from record, which I think is a fitting legacy for Paine.

Short chapters. Fun, if you like history and get sick of imbalanced biographies that solely commemorate the virtues of those long gone without mentioning their failures, than this is a good book.