Book Review: "Ragtime: A Novel" by E. L. Doctorow"

Today we're giving you a book review. Since I am a history buff myself, I'm reviewing "Ragtime: A Novel" by E. L. Doctorow.

Here's the synopsis:

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

What I love is always hearing various versions of the same historical events. Especially when it's something you learn in school and always wondered if there was more to it. I am a deep diver so even when I learn something, I always need to go back for more, and almost always, I learn at least one new thing that wasn't in the mainstream knowledge. For anyone who enjoys history, this is definitely a book to read.

Are you going to check out this book? If so, let us know what you think in the comments.