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All the critics say that this isn't his best work, but I think it's a real treat for people of my generation because you get a sense of Hemingway's own sense of himself as a writer and a celebrity. And the stories--about Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot, Stein, others--are amusing for people who only know these figures as past literary celebs.
A fascinating socioeconomic/epidemiological history of the plague that swept from the Asian steppes to the edges of Europe in the mid-1300s. The author uses contemporary accounts--diaries, tax records and the like--so the reader connects with actual individuals who lived though the horror. Most intetresting to me was the discussion of the ways in which the Great Mortality spurred technological and economic development in the decades after the dying was done. He even discusses the scientific dissenters who argue that it wasn't the rat- and flea-transmitted bubonic bacteria that killed millions, but anthrax or maybe ebola. Not a very comforting thought, but a good way to cap off the book.