Hey Everyone,
I am going to review the book "67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence," by Howard Means. This book is fresh for the picking today April 12, 2016. To read an excerpt from this book CLICK HERE. To purchase a copy of this book CLICK HERE. I chose this book to read based on its description. I am interested in learning more than I do of the time period of the Vietnam war and the Kent State shooting. I will honestly say I do not know much, and this is a time period in history of which I am lacking much knowledge of. This book was a detailed run down of the Kent State shooting on May 4, 1970. It is a compilation of the events and the atmosphere that led to the shooting.
I will say this book did a very good job on presenting the atmosphere behind the shooting. It was interesting and intriguing. This book also did a good job in describing the factors that led up to the shooting, the causes and the effects of it. It did help me understand more about this time period, so it did its job in answering my reasons for reading this book.
I will say I did not love this book, I did have a difficult time finishing it. It felt like reading a long news article instead of a book. The chapters were all meshed together and did not flow well. It just seemed as if it were lacking organization. I felt it was also lacking the emotions behind this traumatic event. Because of this I had a difficult time connecting and engaging to this story.
I don't want to end on a sour note. I am not trying to dissuade anyone from reading this because like our presidential candidates we all have our own opinions, beliefs, likes and dislikes.
I would like to thank Netgalley, Howard Means, and Perseus Book Group: Da Capo Press for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
Until the next page,
Jill
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