A review by yabetsy
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Marc Aronson, Scott Reynolds Nelson

5.0

A great example of both history and the historian's journey. Follow Scott Nelson as he has an "ah ha!" moment tracking down the 'truth' behind a folk song. . . was there really a John Henry, how and why do the fit into history and what can the story of the trackliners tell us?