The United States Constitution by Jonathan Hennessey

Are you one of those persons who just enjoys the fireworks and doesn’t know, or believe they care, about why today is a good day for fireworks? Well, even you would likely enjoy this book. Is the 4th of July a good day to read this book? Of course! You could, for instance, read it on your Kindle with plenty of time to spare before the fireworks display. It is a a wildly inspiring presentation in all its power to convey detailed facts, insights, and nuanced concepts. When not writing or reading I’m heavily into cycling (preferably for transportation or travel rather than speed), films, hunting for seasonal waterfalls in the nearby California foothills (with or without a pocket full of podcasts), chasing down hard to find craft sodas, or swooning over vintage graphic design in some slightly downtrodden but capacious Midwestern antique mall.įind out more at, where you can join an email list for respectfully infrequent and non-invasive updates about new projects and releases.“The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation” makes for compelling reading, whatever your prior knowledge of American history. This I only came to fully appreciate as an adult when I came boomeranging back to an interest in politics, actual people, and the real world after an extended, hazy interregnum of fantasy novels, gaming, comic books, video games, and anime. Army base in New England and raised, like many, in a town steeped in American history. I was born to a military family on a U.S. If you check out my time-travel-turned-inside-out epic, Epochalypse, I hope you’ll agree you would have to look pretty hard for a more fully realized and diverse milieu in the time travel story universe.

And at the same time, I plow the best of the best of my research discoveries into the characters, settings, themes, and scenarios of my narrative material. Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation more captivating, engaging, and accessible. Whatever knack for storytelling I might be said to have makes my books on history like The U.S. And I marvel constantly at the many ways how writing efforts in one genre inspire, sharpen, and elevate the quality of work in the other. So I read (and write) both - often in deep dives into the fascinating backgrounds of everyday people and everyday things. I often find nothing more entertaining than some scrupulously researched historical account and no better learning experience than a thoroughly made-up-from-whole-cloth story. Can’t imagine your life without fiction? Can’t imagine your life without nonfiction? Then you’re a lot like me.

The United States Constitution by Jonathan Hennessey