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Newman narrates events as momentous as grief and as quietly moving as the moonlit face of a sleeping child

The goal is to ignite them

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motivating or deceiving us with the truth

But when his search leads him back to that bloodstained alley

The Bonfire the invisible string Newman narrates events as momentousThe destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history it was the centerpiece of Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all been explored in bestselling books, the one great American example has been treated only cursorily in more general histories. Marc Wortman remedies that conspicuous absence in grand fashion with The Bonfire, an absorbing narrative history told through the points of