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A review by bupdaddy
Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes
3.0
I don't know if you've ever watched any Robert Altman films, but that's all I kept thinking about as I read this book. It's a book made of episodes that sometimes intersect, and frequently don't.
Lots of "characters" only quasi-belong - Vincent van Gogh? From what I got, he was at the exposition maybe 30 seconds. Gauguin was there only a bit longer, although it was cool to learn he bought a cowboy hat while he was there (souvenir from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show).
And in terms of time, the boundaries were again pretty ill-defined, and erred on the side of including irrelevant events.
But it's all entertaining enough, and a pleasant collection of stuff.
Lots of "characters" only quasi-belong - Vincent van Gogh? From what I got, he was at the exposition maybe 30 seconds. Gauguin was there only a bit longer, although it was cool to learn he bought a cowboy hat while he was there (souvenir from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show).
And in terms of time, the boundaries were again pretty ill-defined, and erred on the side of including irrelevant events.
But it's all entertaining enough, and a pleasant collection of stuff.