" Listening to a Gore Vidal book is kind of like listening to your incredibly smart, but aging, grandfather, who just happens to be a scholar of history...he obviously really knows his stuff, but his train of thought isn't as coherant as it used to be. Even though I learned a lot from this book, having a narrative that skipped across the decades, rather than sticking to chronological order, was distracting. The one saving grace was the humor that Mr. Vidal injects...some of his asides and personal observations on the people and events of the Revolutionary era made me laugh out loud (his one comment about "His Excellency and His Rotundity" - George Washington and John Adams - still makes me chuckle). Not a bad book at all...one of these days, I'll have to try the print version to see if I like it any better. "
— Colleen, 2/17/2014