As I get further along I will add my opinion on the Bunker Hill book.
I think that additions of factoids from original sources can be used to make a distant figure human or to belittle them with trivia that is not typical of the record. I do like his notes at the back where he cites why and wherefrom he has written certain angles on events in each chapter.
By the way, LS, keep up the good work. I see you have another on on the New History shelves that I need to get. Your stuff is always outstanding.
I have never read anything from this author except the book on the Essex, which I liked very much and recommended.
I don’t know this author from Adam, so I didn’t have any bias induced in me from listening to interviews from him (and to be honest, I didn’t even realize when I was listening to this book the he was the same author who wrote the Essex book...)
I have to keep in mind as well that the experiment that was the result of the American Revolution is somewhat of a sacred cow to me, so I am biased, no doubt, in that direction.
I guess I may have felt he was trying to slaughter my sacred cow, and that rarely goes over well with people...:)