At first, I really enjoyed it. He had chapter titles like "Typhoid Sucks" He was tellilng history with wit, humor, and personality. And then he made, what to me at least, was a glaring error. He started talking about the 1900 Chicago World's Fair. There was no World's Fair in Chicago in 1900. There was one in 1893 and 1933. In 1900 (and I looked it up, because I was pissed), the only World's Fair was in Paris. France, not Texas. And though this is a fairly minor error, it is the kind that's fairly easy to check. So, I became a little suspicious of the rest of the book. He didn't do a terrible job, but it wasn't fabulous either. Not a bad effort to get people interested in history (and I always enjoy efforts at popular history), and it had a good "further reading" list. But it's not getting promoted to my bookshelf and instead, is headed back to half price books.