What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read?

[Apollo Zeus]

42. "The Storytelling Animal" just read

still reading "Road to New Canaan: the War for America's Soul"

The Underground Railroad went all the way to Canada -- it had to.

>"New York was once home to the largest number of slaves of any state in the North—more than Georgia, until the late 18th century. The heaviest concentration of them was on plantations in the Hudson Valley, many owned by the prominent Livingston family. At times, slaves had made up as much as 10% of the population. Slavery was cruel here as it was anywhere in the South...."<

http://www.fergusbordewich.com/blog/?p=38

Storytelling Animal made many good points but way too many obvious examples and the book was heavily padded with pictures of things like a rat in a section about an MIT study -- to make sure we know what a rat looks like I guess. I got the sense that he had a strong thesis but had to stretch to get 200 pages out of it.