Mike’s Reviews > Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace > Status Update
Mike
is on page 210 of 464
This book is annoying, because it's trying to be everything to everybody. It wants to satisfy people who like history, people who like biographies, and people who like policy, and it ends up being unfocused as a result. The good writing is about the only thing this has going for it; this is too scattered to be entertaining, and not very informative for educational purposes.
— Jun 20, 2019 06:32PM
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Mike
is on page 300 of 464
There's a definite feeling that there's not actually much of a story to the Camp David Accords, so Wright has to fill it in with excessive backstory and biographical details to make this book-length.
— Jun 22, 2019 08:19AM
Mike
is on page 120 of 464
I really hate how little discussion there is of the human impact of the issues that these leaders are discussing. It makes us forget why the Camp David Accords actually mattered, and just makes really important issues of Palestinian oppression into meaningless bargaining chips for the one or two people who Wright is actually interested in.
— Jun 18, 2019 08:03PM
Mike
is on page 30 of 464
On one hand, I'm kind of worried that this will turn out to be the kind of indulgent great man history that doesn't really teach you anything. On the other hand, this is the most readable and interesting thing I've read in months. So we'll see where this goes.
— Jun 17, 2019 03:56PM
