What are you reading this week of September 20, 2015?

[northoftheborder]

6. The historical background...

....to the beginnings of the American Revolution is fascinating. We tend to think of the Founding Fathers, educated, intelligent, reasoning and compromising, as representative of the whole population. Not so -- most people back then were not educated, poor, scrabbling out a living in the wilderness, untrusting of any government, often criminal escapees from Europe. How we ever came together to make a nation (from many cultures) is an amazing story. The author of this book has done extensive research on the culture of the times, both in the colonies and Scotland. (I can skip the intricacies of primitive surgery, thank you.) But it has been very interesting and educational to read. The development of the main characters is very rich.