My Amazon Review of David Rubinstein's "The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians"

History Comes Alive

Private equity mogul and patriotic philanthropist David Rubinstein truly loves the history of our country and has lovingly written up a series of interviews/conversations with America’s great historians. The interviews took place at the Library of Congress with representatives and senators present where he discussed the lives of such great Americans as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King and Richard Nixon. The historians he interviewed included Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ron Chernow, Walter Isaacson and Bob Woodward among others. He also interviews Chief Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court.

We get into the lives of the great personages who made our country. He asks the historians about their great strengths and foibles. It all comes across as a great series of conversations. There is much to learn here. The conversations really flow and the book is very hard to put down in the middle of any of the interviews.

I got sense as to how good David Rubinstein is when he interviewed Fed Chairman Jay Powell that was shown on CNBC.  Rubinstein knows his subject matter and his subjects. Given that most high school and college students don’t know history, I would highly recommend that this book be made required reading in every high school in America!

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