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mwesterma's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
0.5
I didn't like the author's writing style, and I wasn't able to get used to it. Some of the research didn't seem very in-depth, or it didn't seem very solid. Personally, I also didn't like how he discussed some of the victims.
johnmarlowe's review
3.0
This was an interesting book, but probably not to other than Cincinnati natives. It made me want to visit places like “The Serpent Mound”, an Indian archeological site and it made me think about and remember other famous companies, people and things around here. I haven’t thought about in years, that Kenner Toys was here, makers of the Star Wars toys and many other famous ones, that Annie Oakley was from here, that the man who coined the name “The Boston Tea Party” and who participated in it was from here. The author mentioned several medical pioneers from Cincinnati, such as Albert Sabin or the polio virus fame, and several others. Samuel P. Chase, who Chase Bank is named for, had his picture on the very first dollar bill. The riverboat Sutana was made on the Ohio River here, and is famous as the biggest water disaster ever in the U.S. Martha, the last passenger pidgeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. And of course, Cincinnati is the home of the first professional baseball team, the Red Stockings, and had the first night game here. I’d recommend this book to anyone from Cincinnati, although it could have been much longer than 147 pages.
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