Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bland overview of CSA

Davis has done better. Although a thematic, rather than chronological, approach can work in general histories like this, it doesn't work here. There's a lot of jumping around and a lack of coherency at times. Also, Davis used 1/4th of the book just to get to Lincoln's First Inagural. Davis wrote a good history of the origins of the Confederacy, so I don't see why we need 100 pages of detail on that here.I give it two stars because there's always something to learn from a fine researcher. This one was a big disappointment, though.