Incredible research, detailed endnotes. I got to feel for them all, all of it. This is a great, important read, history important to know and remember.

It is very long.

"They were all, in their own ways, euphoric, just as, in their own ways, they had all somehow come through, had managed to arrive at this unimaginable coming together, this testimony to a difficult past surmounted and a potentially better future in view."