Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The advertising and promotion of this book by Amazon, and in the subtitle on the book jacket, suggestes that it is a history of the settlement of the territories created by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. It is anything but. While the first 31 pages do contain a most welcome presentation of the creation of the Ordinance, the balance of the volume is devoted primarily to the personal histories of the first settlers of the North bank of the Ohio River in the vicinity of Cincinatti. Of the larger Northwest, of the peoples of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan there is not a word, not even in the index. As an admirer of the work of David McCullogh, and the possesor of all of his previous volumes, I cannot but believe that the fault lies not with the author, but with the publisher and promoters of the book, including Amazon, for mis-representing this work Caveat emptor.