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Aug 09, 2014photocat rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book. It's a 500-pager so I renewed it twice. I started slowly and then couldn't put it down because the tale is ultimately so moving. I learned new viewpoints on so much of our country's early 20th century history -- so alternative to what we got in school. It was interesting to learn about WW1 soldiers who were tear-gassed in Washington DC when they demanded their rightful pay, to the tragic circumstances of Trotsky's family as all his children were killed by Stalin, the missed opportunities for relations with Russia before the Cold War launched, the tribulations and triumphs of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and finally the impact and horror of the McCarthy anti-communist crusade on this country's psyche. This book is worth the time to pursue it to the poignant end.