I was really impressed with the overall scope of this book. Wildly ambitious. I loved how the book dealt with major known events and then minor characters all but lost to history. The different styles kept the book fresh. With 80+ voices it was a great way to be introduced to new to me writers and a great way to discover which things I want to dive deeper into. My criticism comes from the sometimes disjointed feel because some contributors wrote history some wrote memoir and that left the book feeling like it didn’t always know who/what it was.