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[The Inner Circle] by Brad Meltzer
The Culper Ring series Book #1
3★
There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living.Beecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. He has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself...Until now.There were parts of this book that were so full of history and the secrets that our forefathers went to such great lengths to keep in order to preserve the fragile new democracy. It enables the reader to really feel that they are there and a part of the "inside information." In spite of that I crawled through the first few chapters and their seemingly useless chatter. Just when I was considering giving it up...things began to happen and I was once again drawn into the story and the characters. I find Wallace to be rather a waste as president...but that's more or less the way of government. It was fun to read about the underground caves in Pennsylvania where archival documents are stored, and other facts you don't get to hear about every day.
