There was a time where it really felt like just everyone and their mother was reading this book and talking about this book. And there’s good reason – it’s absolutely fascinating  and Larson does an incredible job of making cold historical facts absolutely fascinating. I could be wrong, but the modern idea of narrative nonfiction really started here, carried through largely by Larson himself. Fifteen years later, the book doesn’t hold up quite as well as I remember. Larson leans hard into “this is all […]