Present at the Creation By Joseph A. Harriss
"The contrast between the United States and Europe is too striking not to be noticed by even the most superficial observer." To that typically understated comment by George Washington in the earliest, uncertain days of our republic, one can only add a fervent, thank God for the difference. If that seems unduly churlish toward our European friends, then I invite you to dip into Jay Winik's latest book. This erudite, eclectic, and eminently readable look at the momentous events crowded into the last years of the 18th century leaves one overarching impression: Lord, how those people in Europe could hate. Lurching from one vicious bloodletting to another they shot, slashed, and eviscerated each other with glorious abandon as centuries of feudal brutality and institutionalized murder came to a frenzied head.
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