What are you reading now?

[RJNorton]

I now remember Epstein was a little sloppy in other respects, too.

I agree. Last year I was researching the tragic White House stable fire of February 10, 1864. Several horses and ponies were lost in the blaze. I am an animal lover, including horses, and this event really struck me. Epstein writes, "It was little comfort that the dismissed coachman, Patterson McGee, was arrested the next day." I feel readers are left with the impression that at least someone was going to be punished for the tragedy. But that is all Epstein writes. He doesn't tell the whole story. The reader needs to go to other sources to find that despite being arrested, the evidence against McGee was deemed insufficient, and he was released.